Hey,
I'd like to apologize in advance if this is an old issue that everyone
already dealt with in some new mechanism...
But I compiled today's CVS for the first time in a few months, and when i
tried to fire up programs/games with --desktop geom 640x480 (or any other
dimensions) I get an "unknown option --desktop" error and the
"usage" list
pops up. I read the man page, of course, and was able to see that no longer
do you pass windows command-line arguments in the form of "wine app.exe --
app.exe --somearg" (as you used to) but as "wine -- app.exe
--somearg".
Unfortunately, I could find no mentions in the man, documentation, or on
the web about the missing --desktop wine option. In fact, it's still listed
in the Wine documentation on the site:
http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-user/running.shtml
Below is the output I get when I attempt --desktop geom...
Thanks!
Alex
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[root@tesla alexdiaz]# wine --desktop geom 640x480 -- hl.exe
Unknown option '--desktop'
Wine release 20010418
Usage: wine [options] [--] program_name [arguments]
The -- has to be used if you specify arguments (of the program)
Options:
--debugmsg name Turn debugging-messages on or off
--dll name Enable or disable built-in DLLs
--dosver x.xx DOS version to imitate (e.g. 6.22)
Only valid with --winver win31
--help,-h Show this help message
--managed Allow the window manager to manage created windows
--version,-v Display the Wine version
--winver Version to imitate
(win95,nt40,win31,nt2k,win98,nt351,win30,win20)
Alex Diaz <blah@blah.com> wrote:> I'd like to apologize in advance if this is an old issue that everyone > already dealt with in some new mechanism... > > But I compiled today's CVS for the first time in a few months, and when i > tried to fire up programs/games with --desktop geom 640x480 (or any other > dimensions) I get an "unknown option --desktop" error and the "usage" list > pops up. I read the man page, of course, and was able to see that no longer > do you pass windows command-line arguments in the form of "wine app.exe -- > app.exe --somearg" (as you used to) but as "wine -- app.exe --somearg".I'm also new to the current Wine, but somebody on the wine-users list/newsgroups (see <http://www.winehq.org/dev.shtml#ml>) mentioned the current mechanism. Now you can override the global settings in "AppDefaults" sections in your ~/.wine/config like so: [AppDefaults\\YourProgram.exe\\x11drv] "Display" = ":0.0" "Managed" = "N" "Desktop" = "900x675"> Unfortunately, I could find no mentions in the man, documentation, or on > the web about the missing --desktop wine option. In fact, it's still listed > in the Wine documentation on the site: > > http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-user/running.shtmlYes, the documentation seems not to be up-to-date at the moment. Regards... Michael
Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@gmx.de> told comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:> Now you can override the global settings in >"AppDefaults" sections in your ~/.wine/config like so: > >[AppDefaults\\YourProgram.exe\\x11drv] >"Display" = ":0.0" >"Managed" = "N" >"Desktop" = "900x675"This is somewhat inconvenient compared with just specifying a commandline flag. Why was the commandline flag removed? -- ---- Ian Collier : imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk : WWW page below ------ http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/imc.shtml
Ian Collier <imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote: : Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@gmx.de> told : comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: :> Now you can override the global settings in :>"AppDefaults" sections in your ~/.wine/config like so: :> :>[AppDefaults\\YourProgram.exe\\x11drv] :>"Display" = ":0.0" :>"Managed" = "N" :>"Desktop" = "900x675" : This is somewhat inconvenient compared with just specifying a commandline : flag. Why was the commandline flag removed? Read the wine-devel archives on www.winehq.com. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> told comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:>Ian Collier <imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >: Why was the commandline flag removed?>Read the wine-devel archives on www.winehq.com.Can I at least have a clue as to which archive to read? - Archives from the past year (approximately) are presented in index format with each mail in a separate file, so downloading all of them would be silly. - None of the indexes of subject lines contains the word "desktop", except for one irrelevant item. - The ftp site which the mailing list gateway points to, promising older archives in gzipped format, does not respond. -- ---- Ian Collier : imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk : WWW page below ------ http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/imc.shtml