Editing Installing WoW under Wine (section)

===After upgrade to 5.4.8 (18414) can't get past launcher===

I have wine 1.6.2 installed on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
Now at patch 5.4.8 I can no longer play.  I've always had trouble with the installer, but have been able to get around and play in the past.
Now this version makes it harder to get around the Launcher.

I've tried running the installer in wine to see if the installer and launcher now work, but that fails as before.

I've tried running the 32-bit version of Wow.exe and that hangs indefinitely.

I've tried running the 64-bit Wow-64.exe and that also hangs.

I have a couple of desktop shortcuts configured:

* Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe

This starts the launcher and I can log in to Battle.net, then it opens the wow launcher and crashes about a second later.
A log entry appears in Battle.net/Logs/Switcher.log, but no error appears.

The next step is to copy a working windows installation and see if I can get that to start.

* Copying a working installation from Windows yields a working game.

* however, I had to run in windowed mode instead of full screen
* I also had to run the 32-bit client (moving the 64-bit wow-64.exe out of the way)

* launching like this:
<pre>
 __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 WINEDEBUG=-all wine Wow.exe -opengl
</pre>
* I get about 80 fps in window mode
* switching to windowed fullscreen makes the game screen disappear behind my desktop and I can't bring it up to a visible layer
* the battle.net client allows me to log in, then crashes
* the launcher crashes
* the 64-bt client crashes