Wine PC Emulator Hints and Tips
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Wine Programs

  wine          load and run a application
  winedbg       as "wine" but with debugging output
  wineconsole   Run Console applications

  winepath      Convert between windows and unix filepaths  (--help)

  wineboot    start "startup" applications
  winefile    wine 'file explorer' like application
  winemine

Extra applications...

  winetricks     download extra runtime libraries
     http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

     Without arguments runs a gui of available packages.
     Otherwise you can download the packages named

        winetricks corefonts vcrun6

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Running wine as if on a different computer
(From FAQ)

Do not share context

set a WINEPREFIX environment variable.

   WINEPREFIX="/home/anthony/path/to/wine" wine ....

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Run program with a virtual windows desktop

  wine explorer /desktop=name,1024x768 program.exe

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Associate a Linux App with a filetype
(From FAQ)

Create a script called "run_linx_program" and make it executable, and in you
path.

#!/bin/sh
$1 "`wine winepath -u "$2"`"

Second to associate say .pdf files with acroread Linux program save this as
"$HOME/pdf.reg" and then import it with 'regedit $HOME/pdf.reg' command

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf]
@="PDFfile"
"Content Type"="application/pdf"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="/bin/sh run_linx_program acroread \"%1\""

To associate .doc documents with OpenOffice (ooffice):

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc]
@="DOCfile"
"Content Type"="application/msword"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DOCfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="/bin/sh run_linx_program ooffice \"%1\""

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