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MobileSheets Companion would be perfect for me. Except that I am a 100% Linux user with no access to a Windows or Mac machine. I just now tried to run it under Wine on my fedora Linux, but I get nothing. No errors or anything. The process "Mobilecompanion" appears for about 15 seconds in the process list, then disappears.

IF anyone has been able to get it running under Wine and might be able to provide some guidance, configuration knowledge, ideas, tips.... I'd be grateful.

I had a similar problem with the new Version 4:
Up to version 3.x I was successful installing the Companion with Playonlinux(POL). For version 4, the POL installation did succeed, but when launching the application I only got a black window.

My solution:
- Open a terminal
- Create a virtual environment:
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_MobileSheets winecfg
- Install the Companion:
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine_MobileSheets wine /Path/to/download/MobileSheetsProCompanion.exe
- Download & install .NET 8.0:(Download from Microsoft website)
wine /Path/to/download/windowsdesktop-runtime-8.0.8-win-x64.exe
- IMPORTANT: Modify the rendering configuration using winetricks (provided by your linux distribution)
winetricks ddr=gdi

- FINALLY: launch the Companion:
wine "$HOME/.wine_MobileSheets/drive_c/Program Files/Zubersoft/MobileSheetsCompanion/MobileSheetsCompanion.exe"

Optional: Start menu entry
You may wish to manually create an entry in your start menu. For that purpose you need a shell script that executes the above program. mine is located in $HOME/bin/mobilesheetscompanion, the content is:

wine ".wine_MobileSheets/drive_c/Program Files/Zubersoft/MobileSheetsCompanion/MobileSheetsCompanion.exe"

(Make sure, that $HOME/bin is in your PATH)

Make it executable:
chmod +x $HOME/bin/mobilesheetscompanion

Select the starter entry wine/MobileSheetsCompanion
enter mobilesheetscompanion as program to be executed


Hope, this helps
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