Our home computer has been Ubuntu linux for a few years now. My wife does just fine on it doing all that she does and my daughter has no issues with barbie.com or mylittlepony.com flash games either. The only thing that my wife needs from Windows is an app called Ding! from Southwest Airlines. It’s a little app that tells you about deals from the airline. I had it running in Wine on Edgy and then upgraded to Gusty without error. I’m starting fresh with Hardy on her laptop and wanted to remember how I set it up. After digging around to remind myself here’s how I did it:

Follow these excellent steps from Drew Withers: http://drewwithers.com/2008/03/southwest-ding-via-wine-and-ies4linux.html (Thanks Drew!)

The registration window acted funny and kept refreshing and losing the text field data. Here’s how to fix that:
Quit Ding and let’s create a special startup script to get things working:

#!/bin/bash
export WINEPREFIX="/home/YOUR USERNAME/.ies4linux/ie6"
wine ~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program\ Files/Southwest\ Airlines/Ding/Ding.exe


If you use that startup script to call Ding! everything runs great.