[Wine] Re: Is it possible to run programs with different wine config files?

Paul Romanyszyn pgr at arcelectronicsinc.com
Mon May 15 16:13:43 CDT 2006


Duane Clark wrote:
> Bob Bob wrote:
> 
>> Use winecfg and you can store virtual etc desktop settings on a per 
>> application basis.
> 
> 
> Though it is a bit cryptic how. Notice when you add an application in 
> the Applications tab of winecfg, and click on it, the title of the 
> window border changes to "Wine configuration for myapp.exe". So now when 
> you go to the Graphics tab, the settings will effect only that application.
> 
>> This has been possible since wine went to a registry style config 
>> rather than ~/.wine/config. I dont know what version that started at...
> 
> 
> Actually, even the config file allowed per application settings that. 
> Not that it really matters at this point... ;)
> 
>>
>> Cheers Bob
>>
>> AFAIK wrote:
>>
>>> I want to run some games with wine desktop, but i also have to run some
>>> programs without it. It makes me crazy to change all the time the 
>>> settings
>>> in winetools.
>>>
>>> Any help much appreciated.
>>> Thx
> 
> 
> 
Somewhere at or after wine-0.9.11. The per application desktop was 
remove. All run on an explorer desktop or all don't. The option for a 
command like argument to set the desktop was mentioned.
Paul


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