I'd like to know where wine writes. I am not speaking about applications wine executes, they can obviously write everywhere the user privileges allows (via z:/), but of wine itself. I saw that even using WINEPREFIX wine writes in ~/.local, sometime it leaves .desktop files around. Why is that? When wine writes exactly? Can I force wine keeping everything it needs in its WINEPREFIX folder? (reason: I made few packages of windows applications, they should work most possibly as linux native ones) thanks, a RTM answer is fine if you point me in the right direction.
etwineb wrote:> I'd like to know where wine writes.Into $WINEPREFIX if it's registry or "fake c:" drive. And potentially anywhere you (as user) have access to. etwineb wrote:> I saw that even using WINEPREFIX wine writes in ~/.local, sometime it leaves .desktop files around.Yes that's the standard place for menu links, menu sctracture descriptors and icons. See standard for more details: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html etwineb wrote:> Can I force wine keeping everything it needs in its WINEPREFIX folder?No you can't. Window managers don't know to look inside $WINEPREFIX for menu entries, icons, etc.