[Wine] Generating a properly configured Wine installation

[Austin English]

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.
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>  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.
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>
>  - --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.