Necropost
while this may be Necroposting I do have relevant information to share.
I recently tried this and here are my results
Wine is great it runs RMXP with little to no problem.
however Wine 1.0 has imperfect networking implementation. as such RMXP will fail to get a trial key from the nTitles server. also running a game exe in 1.0 will be problematic, mainly graphical glitches like pixelation and no font support.
upgrading whine to the 1.3 beta however removes these problems. Rmxp will get it's key and the game.exe will run with no problems. I even tried Remexos and it worked perfectly (it even seemed to work better, faster load time and all) I did how ever notic a small glich with direct sound, sound effects seem to delay and if you press the arrows in the menu too fast they don't play at all.
as for the RMXP editer it dose seem to have a fee bugs in wine.
1) if you resize the window and it gets too big it will automatically close maximise button or normal.
2) upon load RMXP will frequently give the error "unable to initialise direct sound" and close, it dose this for the first three or four times to try to open a project file and then loads normally after that, strange I know)
all in all this is a great tut and Linux is awesome.
also I want to point out that almost all the errors / bugs i pointed out seem to be related to direct sound which I know is a bit iffy in wine.
good luck too all you Linux users out there!
EDIT: I changed the audio driver Whine uses to OSS and all the sound related problems went away.
I spoke too soon I changes the driver back to the default and enabled the desktop emulation and then ALL problems went away