wine users - Feb 2012 - wine command line arguments

Hi All;

I have just successfully installed Microsoft:
Age of Empires II,
Age of Empires II-Conquerors expansion,
Age of Empires III
on Wine 1.3.7.

No dll overides, no pissing about nothing, just dropped in the CD, mapped it to
using winecfg and installed.

Empires II installed directly from disk and would not run after the install
until I applied the no_Cd_patch and not are fine.

AoEIII has 3 CDs so copied all files to a directory and installed.

Now, to get wine to behave itself, I have set the graphics up to be in a
1280x1024 window and works fine from my calling script:

#!/bin/bash
cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires III/"
wine age3.exe

Now, I don't want all of wine to be in a 1280x1024 window, only the games
so, I set winecfg to turn off the virtual desktop and changed my script to this:
#!/bin/bash
cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires III/"
wine -desktop 1280x1024 age3.exe

But it didn't work, the virtual desktop appeared then disappeared and I get
this on the command line:
jserink at jserinki7 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires III $ wine -desktop=1280x1024 age3.exe
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x88982F81 initializing encoder
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\-desktop=1280x1024.exe"

its pretty obvious that it things "-desktop" is a windows app.
I have tried 2 dashes, an equals sing between the desktop and the resolution but
its always the same.


Any ideas on how I could do this?

Cheers,
john

You should use the latest development version : 1.4-rc1

just try it with two "-" in front of desktop, as usually verbose
options are preceeded with "--"

your command line should thus be 


Code:
wine --desktop 1280x1024 age3.exe

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-dba86ae589dca54a116a3fc21f6237af45e8119c

Hi All;

Ok, updated to:
 jserink at jserinki7 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires III $ wine --version
wine-1.4-rc1

Now, this worked, but:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-dba86ae589dca54a116a3fc21f6237af45e8119c

I first tried this:
wincfg and turn off virtual desktop,
wine explorer /desktop="Age of Empires III",1280x1024 age3.exe

This ran a virtual desktop at 800x600 that was blue inside, no app running and
the name in the boarder was "Age".

Changed the command line to:
wine explorer /desktop=Age_of_Empires_III,1280x1024 age3.exe

And it all works perfect.

Here is my startup batch file for AoE III:
#!/bin/bash
cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires III/"
#wine age3.exe
wine explorer /desktop=Age_of_Empires_III,1280x1024 age3.exe

Here is my startup batch file for AoE II:
#!/bin/bash
cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires II/"
#wine empires2.exe
wine explorer /desktop=Age_of_Empires_II,1280x1024 empires2.exe

Here is my startup batch file for AoE II Conquerers:
#!/bin/bash
cd "/home/jserink/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of
Empires II/"
#wine age2_x1/age2_x1.exe
wine explorer /desktop=Age_of_Empires_II_Conquerers,1280x1024
age2_x1/age2_x1.exe


Thanx for pointing me to the FAQ.

Cheers,
John