Feature Request: Registry / winecfg entry for launching an application in a wineexplorer window
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org
Tue Apr 15 13:05:08 CDT 2008
"Austin English" <austinenglish at gmail.com> writes:
> What would be lost by having those apps that someone wants to be in
> their own virtual desktop each having their own (with unique names).
> I.e., if you choose to give Starcraft and Wow each their own desktop,
> but not notepad:
> $ wine notepad #works in regular managed mode
> $ wine wow.exe # would be equivalent to running wine explorer
> /desktop=wow,1024x768 wow.exe
> $ wine starcraft.exe # would be equivalent to running wine explorer
> /desktop=starcraft,800x600 starcraft.exe
>
> With the desktop names being either assigned by program name,
> automatically assigned, or chosen by the user. Resolution could
> default to 800 x 600, but also be customizable in winecfg.
>
> Thoughts?
That's clearly something that would be nice to have, but it's not
trivial to do; otherwise it would have been done already, it has been
requested for a while now. Patches are welcome of course...
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org
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