[Wine] keyboard inop as user, works as root

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

"unclejed613" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> recently installed wine on a slackware 12.2 system. both root
> and the non-root user account have separate wine filesystems

Unless you have a very unusual situation, it's not advisable to
run wine as root (or sudo).

> as the non-root user, i ran winetricks and installed a majority
> of the items in winetricks,

The recommended approach is to use winetricks only to the extent
necessary to get particular applications to work.

> and now all programs in wine under the non-root account have no
> keyboard input. was there something that winetricks installed
> that can cause this

It would seem so :)

> how do i return to a plain vanilla wine (if nothing else works)?

rm -rf ~/.wine