wine users - Mar 2007 - Different settings for different programs

Is there a way to use different settings (ie: emulate virtual desktop, 
amount of hardware sound acceleration, etc.) for different programs 
run under wine?  Failing that, is there a way to turn on / off the 
emulation of a virtual desktop while running a program from the 
command line?  I'd like to be able to run only certain programs, the 
ones that change the screen resolution, in a virtual desktop, and run 
all others without one.  I'd also like to be able to use full hardware 
acceleration for sound in some programs, but have it set to 
"emulation" by default.

On 2007-01-29, edelstahlratte@gmail.com <edelstahlratte@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there a way to use different settings (ie: emulate virtual desktop, 
> amount of hardware sound acceleration, etc.) for different programs 
> run under wine?  Failing that, is there a way to turn on / off the 
> emulation of a virtual desktop while running a program from the 
> command line?  I'd like to be able to run only certain programs, the 
> ones that change the screen resolution, in a virtual desktop, and run 
> all others without one.  I'd also like to be able to use full hardware 
> acceleration for sound in some programs, but have it set to 
> "emulation" by default.
You might be able to do what you want by using WINEPREFIX to
build and use a separate prefix area for each application.

HTH

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

edelstahlratte@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to use different settings (ie: emulate virtual desktop, 
> amount of hardware sound acceleration, etc.) for different programs 
> run under wine?  Failing that, is there a way to turn on / off the 
> emulation of a virtual desktop while running a program from the 
> command line?  I'd like to be able to run only certain programs, the 
> ones that change the screen resolution, in a virtual desktop, and run 
> all others without one.  I'd also like to be able to use full hardware 
> acceleration for sound in some programs, but have it set to 
> "emulation" by default.
> 
You can create an emulated desktop on the command line like this:

wine explorer /desktop=default,640x480 /c/Program\ Files/Riven/Riven.exe