[Wine] Regedit issues, not owned by root

[Austin English]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mokuren<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been pretty satisfied with wine since I have become aware of its existance and am having a pretty good time with it. There are, however, a couple issues I can't wrap my head around.
>
> First of all, I cannot run regedit as root, it says:

Why do you need to run regedit as root?

> Code:
> wine: /home/mokuren/.wine is not owned by you
>
>
> I don't know how the root is supposed to "not own" something. This isn't a real problem since regedit runs fine not as root, but well...

Exactly. Root doesn't own it, mokuren does.

> Second issue: I cannot rename keys in regedit.
>
> I need to create a Direct3D and a DirectInput key with a couple strings in order to fix some issues (one minor, one game-breaking) with a couple games. However, I am only able to create the keys, any attempt at renaming gives no benefit.
>
> It doesn't matter how many times and how hard I press F2 or how many times I right-click and choose "rename", it absolutely refuses to allow me to change a registry key's name.
>
> What went wrong?

When you say rename, do you mean recase? That fails on windows as
well. If renaming fails though, something is wrong.


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-Austin