World of Warcraft under Wine

World of Warcraft works perfectly under Wine. See for help the numerous web ressources on how to make WoW run under Wine, for instance at:

• WOWWIKI
• Wine HQ
• Gentoo
• fsckin
• Useful tips on the Ubuntu forums
• In French / En Francais:
  • Ubuntu
  • topic du forum wow

Tips:

• If the ALT key seems not to work in the game, try running Wow with a simpler Window Manager. The best solution being to run it as the sole client of a second X server, without a window manager (See WineGeneralTricks).A good trick also is to remap your Windows key, if you have one, to the META modifier and use it.
• The AddOn directory in Interface should be capitalized with a capital O for wowmatrix to work

Not only this, but a lot of auxiliary programs also works:

• Wow cartographe The essential knowledge base for Wow, works under Wine
• Wowmatrix To manage updates of your addons. Has a native Linux version.
• MPQ Editor to access Wow files, useful for fan art, or cute phone rings
• Teamspeak Has a native linux version. However, it only supports OSS, not alsa or pulseaudio, and thus may not work on all configs. For instance, I found that the best results were obtained by running the windows version of teamspeak under wine, with the command: padsp wine TeamSpeak.exe
• The curse client to manage addons: search, install, update addons.

-- ColasNahaboo - 2008-07-19

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Update WOTLK 2008-11-13 There is a ownership issue when trying to install the "Wrath of the Lich King" extension. The DVD must be mounted with the ro,unhide,uid=$UID option, see this post

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