i just installed the newest version of wine on to the latest version of ubuntu and it opens but so does this window that i cant close or it closes the intire program and there is no desktop and no way for me to do anything please help me
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 17:54, nibbles.hax<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> i just installed the newest version of wine on to the latest version of ubuntu and it opens but so does this window that i cant close or it closes the intire program and there is no desktop and no way for me to do anything please help me >wine will not give you a Windows desktop to work on. Start with the FAQ (relvant entries at least, such as 1.9, section 3 and 4 (section 7 might be useful as well)) http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo might be useful as well, but it does not seem to offer a good introduction of how Wine works, etc. (Is there a nice Getting Started guide somewhere, anyone?) Gert
Oh, Wine works. Right-click on any EXE file that you have (on a CD, or downloaded, or whatever) and choose to open it with the command "wine". That should be the most basic usage for Wine. You can also open a terminal and do: Code: cd path/to/exe wine filename.exe There is no full desktop with a start menu and all that if you're looking for that. Wine does actually come with a desktop, but it's only used to put all Wine applications into a single window - it's that window you were complaining about. You can disable the Wine desktop or make it smaller/larger by launching "winecfg" (or the Configure Wine shortcut in your applications menu).