[Wine] Generating a properly configured Wine installation

[Austin English]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  Austin English wrote:
>  | You'd have to custom compile wine and edit those settings in
>  | tools/wine.inf before compiling.
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>  This can't be true.  For example, as a matter of brute force, I could
>  start a copy of Wine, generate the .wine/, use winecfg to modify it, and
>  then carry that .wine/ around for future reference.  Before starting
>  applications, I could just copy the entire contents of my customized
>  .wine/ into WINEPREFIX.  This, however, is very ugly, because I'm moving
>  megabytes of junk around because I don't know where the settings are
>  stored.  Where are the settings stored?
>
>  - --Ben
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You could run wineprefixcreate, then use a shell script to edit
~/.wine/user.reg & ~/.wine/system.reg. Actually, correct my mistake
earlier. It seems you can edit /usr/share/wine/wine.inf as well (I
haven't tested this though).