wine users - Apr 2008 - Generating a properly configured Wine installation

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Dear Wine users,

I am attempting to run Wine inside Sugar, the OLPC GUI environment.  I
have managed to learn how to run wine from a nonstandard install prefix.
I am now trying to generate a correctly customized .wine/ automatically.
For example, I wish to set the DPI to 160 before any programs are run.  I
also wish to set the USERPROFILE setting to something not based on the
UNIX username.

How can I perform automated customization of .wine before launching
anything in Wine?  Where are the settings for DPI and USERPROFILE stored?

Thank you,
Ben
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  Dear Wine users,
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>  I am attempting to run Wine inside Sugar, the OLPC GUI environment.  I
>  have managed to learn how to run wine from a nonstandard install prefix.
>  I am now trying to generate a correctly customized .wine/ automatically.
>  For example, I wish to set the DPI to 160 before any programs are run.  I
>  also wish to set the USERPROFILE setting to something not based on the
>  UNIX username.
>
>  How can I perform automated customization of .wine before launching
>  anything in Wine?  Where are the settings for DPI and USERPROFILE stored?
>
>  Thank you,
>  Ben
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You'd have to custom compile wine and edit those settings in
tools/wine.inf before compiling.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>  Austin English wrote:
>  | You could run wineprefixcreate, then use a shell script to edit
>  | ~/.wine/user.reg & ~/.wine/system.reg.
>
>  I have been storing "good" copies of these two files, and using
a shell
>  script to copy them into the appropriate location.  Unfortunately, this
>  does not seem to have the desired effect.  For example, if I
>
>  use winecfg to set the DPI to 160,
>  exit wine,
>  back up user.reg and system.reg,
>  run wineprefixcreate,
>  copy user.reg and system.reg back into ~/.wine/,
>  and start a new program,
>
>  the new program starts at 96 DPI again.
>
>  Clearly I am doing something wrong.
Two suggestions.
1. If you must modify user.reg and system.reg by hand, make sure
that wineserver has shut down first, e.g. wineserver -w.
2. Rather than modifying those files by hand, use regedit to do it.
See http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks for an example of how to script this.
- Dan

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  Austin English wrote:
>  | You could run wineprefixcreate, then use a shell script to edit
>  | ~/.wine/user.reg & ~/.wine/system.reg.
>
>  I have been storing "good" copies of these two files, and using
a shell
>  script to copy them into the appropriate location.  Unfortunately, this
>  does not seem to have the desired effect.  For example, if I
>
>  use winecfg to set the DPI to 160,
>  exit wine,
>  back up user.reg and system.reg,
>  run wineprefixcreate,
>  copy user.reg and system.reg back into ~/.wine/,
>  and start a new program,
>
>  the new program starts at 96 DPI again.
>
>  Clearly I am doing something wrong.  Could this be related to the
>  USERPROFILE setting?
>
>  I am also surprised that there is no Ntuser.dat.
>
>
>  - --Ben
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Try editing /usr/share/wine/wine.inf (may be different for your
distribution). I just tested with a few settings, and new wine
prefixes made take that as the default.