wine users - Apr 2008 - wine explorer /desktop doesn't work the first time

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If I do:

rm -r ~/.wine/
wineprefixcreate
wine explorer /desktop=default,1200x900 winemine

Then winemine opens in its own window.  It does not open inside a fake
desktop, which is what explorer /desktop is supposed to do.  However, if I
close winemine and run the same command again

wine explorer /desktop=default,1200x900 winemine

I get the correct behavior the second time, and winemine appears inside a
desktop window provided by explorer.

Can anyone else confirm this behavior?  Am I doing something wrong?

The only noninteractive workaround I can think of is to have a script to
run after wineprefixcreate that opens wine and immediately closes.  How
can I make wine start and immediately close, noninteractively?  Is there a
better solution?

- --Ben
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  If I do:
>
>  rm -r ~/.wine/
>  wineprefixcreate
>  wine explorer /desktop=default,1200x900 winemine
>
>  Then winemine opens in its own window.  It does not open inside a fake
>  desktop, which is what explorer /desktop is supposed to do.  However, if I
>  close winemine and run the same command again
>
>  wine explorer /desktop=default,1200x900 winemine
>
>  I get the correct behavior the second time, and winemine appears inside a
>  desktop window provided by explorer.
>
>  Can anyone else confirm this behavior?  Am I doing something wrong?
>
>  The only noninteractive workaround I can think of is to have a script to
>  run after wineprefixcreate that opens wine and immediately closes.  How
>  can I make wine start and immediately close, noninteractively?  Is there a
>  better solution?
>
>  - --Ben
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Works fine for me in wine 0.9.59 and in git.

Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> Then winemine opens in its own window.  It does not open inside a fake
> desktop, which is what explorer /desktop is supposed to do.  However, if I
> close winemine and run the same command again
> 
> wine explorer /desktop=default,1200x900 winemine
The only reason this can happen is when Wine was still running. You specifying
the default desktop so if Wine was already running there was already
"default" desktop.