[Wine] Howto change default wineprefix settings?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 16:28:44 CST 2009


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> weetabix wrote:
>> How I can change these defaults into something different?
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> Well you can't easily change defaults because some are hard-coded into Wine itself and you'll have to hack source.
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> What you can do is create a script that edits all what you want to edit. Some things are in registry - sound. Some things are symlinks - drives, location of "My Documents", "Desktop", etc - shell-folders.
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> Drives are symlinks in $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices where "x:" points to a mount point and "x::" points to device.
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> Shell-folders are bit more complicated. They are symlinks or real directories here: $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/$USER/
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You can also edit tools/wine.inf, but that would get overwritten each
time wine is upgraded.

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-Austin



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