Rep:Wine Setup

[yves-gablin at canal-plus.fr]

Sorry, I'm new to this group, therefore I couldn't
answer until now.
I think I may have some answers, all related to Wine
source distrib, but they should be adaptable to
CodeWeavers Wine:

1) Don't know...

2) for uninstalling win32 apps, you have to use
"uninstaller". This program is in
./program/uninstaller from the wine source tree. It
is very easy to install actually:
Once in wine sources' root directory, do
$ cd ./program/uninstaller
$ make
$ make install
from now on, you can execute
/usr/local/bin/uninstaller
This program seems to rely on registry entries placed
there by programs you install.

3) As far as I know, it is not possible, but the fact
that they are not in the same window/desktop does not
mean anything as far as inter-application
communication is concerned.

4) Well... a "taskbar" is only the latest mean of
managing win32 apps, that Microsoft has used. Before
that, Unix usually used menus, and Windows used
"progman.exe", which could execute a command line and
manage program groups (remember Windows 3.1 ?)
In Wine, you don't have a taskbar, you just have
"good old" progman, but it's all really the same, as
long as you don't intend to display a native
Windows(tm) StartMenu(tm).
Same as above, once in Wine sources' root directory:
$ cd ./program/progman
$ make
$ make install
then you can execute /usr/local/bin/progman
It is still a little buggy around the edges but it
seems to work.

5) & 6) Can't help you about this one...

Hope this helps.

Yves.
-----Message d'origine-----
De: cacook at freedom.net

1) CWp3 winedbg symlink is broken.  How to fix?

2) I am hearing that in order to deinstall a Windows
program, you must compile a
certain proggie from the sources.  It doesn't seem to
come with CWWine.  Best avenue?

3) I chose Desktop mode, as I need two apps running
simultaneously.  Freedom, which is my privacy app and
netscape-mail must run together, as mail is fetched
through Freedom.  I'm hearing that each winprog is
run as new process.  Is it possible to run two
winprogs in one Wine desktop?

4) Should there be a taskbar on the desktop?  If so,
how would I enable?

5) I understand that every time X fonts are changed,
Wine freezes for a period until these are
assimilated.  But when I run a program
(QuoteTracker), it runs for about 2 minutes (with a
random script font) then freezes; indefinitely.  I
need to kill the Wine window and the server process,
so no debug info.  This happens with other Win
proggies as well.  I presume this is happening on a
font scan.  What could be wrong?  

6) Wanting to set up a common Wine config for all
users, so tried symlinking to a user's /$HOME/.wine
files.  But even root fails when running a Wine
program, with something like 'root is not the owner
of the process'. (referring to the folder in .wine
dir)  Possible to fix?

 
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