QQ International

What works

Login (via on-screen keyboard)

Remembering password

Viewing list of friends

Viewing messages

Viewing group messages

Settings

Crash reporter

What does not

The password is hidden. I mean, it appears blank.

CJK characters are rendered as squares. See workarounds.

Most CJK characters are rendered properly if workarounds are applied. However, CJK characters in the group announcement panel appear as squares.

It crashes every 5 minutes. "Access Violation"

Workarounds

To render CJK characters (and use a prettier font)

1. Type winecfg and change the default font settings.
2. Open regedit in Wine and import this registry file. Note that the implementation of regedit is crap and Chinese characters in the file cannot be decoded properly. Continue to the next step.
3. In regedit, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink] and fix the mangled keys. You can add more mappings such as "黑体"="SourceHanSansCN-Medium.otf"
4. Now let's get the actual fonts. winetricks cjkfonts

Wine complains I should install the winbind package to use NTLM* functions. Install it.

More winetricks:

$ winetricks riched20 vcrun2003 vcrun2005

What was not tested

Audio chat

Video chat

etc.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Unknown
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

It seems that those "fancier" QQs have even more troubles running on top of Wine. Don't use them.