Running MLO Desktop on Mac OSX

[Steve.S]

Does anyone have recent experience of running the Windows MLO version on Mac OSX under Wine?

My MacBook Air arrives tomorrow and I will attempt to leave Windows behind after nearly 30 years as my main desktop. Work rules mean no option to run it as a VM with Windows.I found some old entries on the forum from 2 years ago, which suggested that it was possible to get it working. Interested in more recent experience.

[Steve.S]

Update on current experience using MLO on OSX 10.10 under Wine on a MacBook Air (early 2015). Using the instructions in the forum as far back as 2010, I have MLO 4.3.3 running under both CrossOver and WineSkin. I've finally settled on WineSkin as my preferred choice. 

MLO works fine under CrossOver 14.1.6. I had to add IE7 to the bottle. All works fine including cloud sync. My only gripe is that display fonts are not quite right, with the kerning being too tight and making the text hard to read. Tried many combinations of Display DPI and fonts and finally settled on one which made it readable, but was not great. 

My preference is WineSkin Winery 2.6.0 with WS9Wine1.7.51. Added msxml3 and msxml4 and IE7 using WineTricks from the Advanced/Utils dialog. Fonts and readability are fine out of the box. Just increased the default font size in MLO/Options from the default. CloudSync is a little slow, but works fine. WineSkin is not quite as slick as CrossOver in that there are several processes running in the background with aggregations of MLO and Wine in their titles, but for saving £40 its a minor irritation.  

[Joel Azaria]

Not a Mac user but that is good info.

[TCx]

Couple questions for you: 

How's this running for you since your last update? 

Why the need for the IE7 bit? 

[Rob Feeny]

The simplest solution I've come up with is running it on a VM using VirtualBox. I have a simple lightweight Win7 install that does nothing but run MLO. In seamless mode it's pretty nice.

[shaig]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to set up MLO on a mac and figured I'd bump up this post instead of making a new one.

I got MLO working (with WineBottler, on El Capitan) but I can't find a way to get any keys on the mac keyboard to behave like the windows insert key on MLO. And I make very heavy use of the insert and alt-insert shortcuts.

Any solution to this? Either a way to change the key binding or a way to send "insert" to MLO is great.

Thanks!

[Stéph]

Hello Shaig,

The insert and alt-insert shortcuts are actually hotkeys, which can be reassigned under the Tools-Options menu selection.  Does this hotkey assignment list not work when you're using it on a Mac?

Stéphane

[Shai Geva]

Hi Stéphane,

Sorry, I searched for it but managed to miss it...

It works without issues. 

Thank you!!!

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