Hey guys, got a little problem here with wine. Wine seems to ignore the settings for specific applications and always uses the global settings. For example, when I set up app xyz.exe to be started with an emulated desktop, it doesnt work. But when I activate emulated desktop in global settings, it works - but now of course ALL the apps are run with emulated desktops, which doesnt come in very handy. The funny thing is, that this bug (?) seems to affect only the graphical settings, audio-settings and overriding libraries seems to work perfectly for the different applications. What do I do wrong? thx
how are you starting wine...? if you go in to the folder and just do wine xyz.exe then it should work.. if you are launching it through something else, like start.exe, it wont.
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:24 -0500, mrhat wrote:> For example, when I set up app xyz.exe to be started with an emulated > desktop, it doesnt work. But when I activate emulated desktop in > global settings, it works - but now of course ALL the apps are run > with emulated desktops, which doesnt come in very handy. >These settings (Windows version, virtual desktop, etc) apply to all programs run with a particular prefix - .wine is the default. If a program needs something different, use a different prefix: export WINEPREFIX=.newprefix cd $WINEPREFIX/path/to/program wine progname Put the above lines into a small script file, say $HOME/bin/myscript with: #!/bin/bash as its first line, make it executable: chmod u+x $HOME/bin/myscript make sure that bin is on the search path by adding: export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin as the last line in .bash_profile and you can run the script from the command line or point a desktop launcher at it so you can click an icon to run it. Martin
Martin Gregorie wrote:> These settings (Windows version, virtual desktop, etc) apply to all programs run with a particular prefix - .wine is the default.Wrong. Only virtual desktop, sound system and directory locations are more-less global.