Winetricks is a simple script that adds a few mssing things to wine, e.g. it's how most people install ms dlls or .net on wine. It also provides a simple commandline way to change a few settings. For instance, winetricks vd=1024x768 sets a 1024x768 virtual desktop... it'd be nice if one could instead do winecfg vd=1024x768 or something like that.
See also http://winetricks.org.
On Mar 23, 2011 10:36 AM, "Tony Zhang" niu.tony.c.zhang@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Dan,
I agree that it would be nice to have a command-line interface for wine settings cause I have run into situations that I have to configure wine before going into X. So is it possible to first group/rearrange winecfg functions into certain libraries and then let the GUI (control panel) and the CLI all interact with the corresponding libraries?
About winetricks, I do not know much about it. What exactly do you mean by "winetricks settings"?
Now I see what you meant. That really is a nice feature to do something like "winecfg vd=1024x768". I'll see if I can understand how winetricks accomplish that.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Winetricks is a simple script that adds a few mssing things to wine, e.g. it's how most people install ms dlls or .net on wine. It also provides a simple commandline way to change a few settings. For instance, winetricks vd=1024x768 sets a 1024x768 virtual desktop... it'd be nice if one could instead do winecfg vd=1024x768 or something like that.
See also http://winetricks.org.
Winetricks uses the registry. It creates temporary .reg files and feeds them to regedit.
J. Leclanche
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Tony Zhang niu.tony.c.zhang@gmail.com wrote:
Now I see what you meant. That really is a nice feature to do something like "winecfg vd=1024x768". I'll see if I can understand how winetricks accomplish that.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Winetricks is a simple script that adds a few mssing things to wine, e.g. it's how most people install ms dlls or .net on wine. It also provides a simple commandline way to change a few settings. For instance, winetricks vd=1024x768 sets a 1024x768 virtual desktop... it'd be nice if one could instead do winecfg vd=1024x768 or something like that.
See also http://winetricks.org.
On 03/23/2011 12:05 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
Winetricks is a simple script that adds a few mssing things to wine, e.g. it's how most people install ms dlls or .net on wine. It also provides a simple commandline way to change a few settings. For instance, winetricks vd=1024x768 sets a 1024x768 virtual desktop... it'd be nice if one could instead do winecfg vd=1024x768 or something like that.
Except you don't need winecfg for that you can run: wine explorer /desktop,program,1024x768 program.exe
But all that aside, all changes that winecfg is doing are registry only changes. IMHO Wine doesn't need yet another program to writes something into registry. There are already two: regedit and reg.
Vitaliy
OK, I was pretty busy the whole week last week, and didn't get any chance to look into anything. But I cannot agree on this:
But all that aside, all changes that winecfg is doing are registry only
changes. IMHO Wine doesn't need yet another program to writes something into registry. There are already two: regedit and reg.
Yes, there are already regedit and reg to change registry, but they are not easy to use for regular users. Even a lot of Windows users don't know how to modify registry through regedit, not to mention those Linux users who have seldom, if ever, used Windows before.
I might be wrong on this, but according to my knowledge, most wine user just want to use it as "easy" as in Windows, and certainly not many Windows users mass with regedit that often -- that is why there is control panel.
I do think winecfg has its market, and to make it even better, I would like to combine it into the control panel.
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