[Wine] Re: Winecfg and application settings...

dimesio wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun Sep 20 09:23:22 CDT 2009


doh123 wrote:
> more on my system if it helps anyone....
> 
> running Wine 1.1.29 on Mac OS X 10.6 ... Wine built on this machine, not using default prefixes...
> 
> launching exe's in oddball locations (inside .apps)... from inside the Wine bin folder thats also located inside the .app .. my coding finds the current locations and sets stuff right, also putting Wine in the path for that session... running Wine directly in the right directory by having it enter
> 
> ./wine start /unix "$VARIABLEPATHTOEXE" > "$ANOTHERVARIABLE/log.txt" 2>&1 &
> 
> which runs everything fine... except every .exe I run, even while I list it and put different settings in winecfg.exe for that exe, it still runs it at default.... Winecfg.exe still has the listing and different settings showing, it just doesn't work.
> 
> 


When you use a wineprefix other than the default, you have to specify the WINEPREFIX variable in the command line every time you run something in that wineprefix, including winecfg, or the settings for the default wineprefix will be used. For example:


Code:
WINEPREFIX=/home/user/mywine winecfg









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