[Wine] Wine profiles

[Paul Romanyszyn]

On 12/15/2010 07:52 AM, Bob Wya wrote:
> I've found the Wine registry to be useful. I prefer to install all my Steam games in a single Wine prefix together (I know that's really, really bad - I don't care).
>
> To fix issues for specific games I then edit the AppDefaults key. Add the main executable of the game I want to overide and keys underneath that as necessary.
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> Useful Wine Registry Keys (http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys)
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> You can do .dll overides and all kinds of useful stuff this way. E.g. I do a mouse warp overide fix for Bioshock this way. My other Steam games aren't effected by this... But would be if it was global - the mouse pointer in World in Conflict just gets locked in the middle of the screen.
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> As an example take the problem of trying to run one,specific application in a virtual desktop of a certain size.
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> Globally winecfg creates/sets the key (which would run all applications in that Wine prefix in a virtual desktop):
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> Code:
> REGEDIT4
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> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Explorer\Desktops]
> "Default"="800x600"
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>
>
> So to make this setting only apply to a single application (in that Wine prefix) you would create:
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> Code:
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> REGEDIT4
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> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\<application.exe>\Explorer\Desktops]
> "Default"="800x600"
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> (obviously<application.exe>  will be replaced with something sensible - main executable name for your application/game - not a full path)
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> This method works for game shortcuts (created on the Desktop), running the game via Steam and running the game from the command line.
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> You can add the keys via .reg files or by using the Wine buildin registry editor.
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> Probably easiest to use the import/export feature in the Wine registry editor. You can use this with winecfg - determine what the global key is and then create the local key (adding in: "AppDefaults\<application.exe>" to make override specific to one application).
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> Hope that's clear!!  8)
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> Bob
>
A long time ago as I recall winecfg allowed per application virtual 
desktop just like it allow per application dll overrides. Changes 
required for progress removed that option. Now all windows controlled by 
a wineserver on a prefix get the same desktop.

Paul