On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Austin English <austinenglish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If ~/.wine doesn't exists when you run an app for the first time, the > > > prefix is automatically created. I.e., > > > $ rm -rf ~/.wine > > > $ wine notepad > > > > This is on the WineHQ Wine HowTo page where? Clearly I've never done > > it this way so you now have one convert. > > It's alluded to in the FAQ, but should be made more clear. Someone > with a flair with words/instructions care to update the FAQ? It seems that the actual FAQ page ( http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ ) doesn't mention either winprefixcreate or 'wine notepad' so clearly there is at least a little bit of writing that could be done. I don't have a clue about the how of modifying a Wiki, Never done it myself. > > > > How is this different than > > > > rm -rf .wine > > winecfg > > The only difference would be that you launch winecfg, whereas I > launched notepad ;-) > I've used winecfg in the past so as to configure Alsa and drive D: as a CDROM. If I run 'wine notepad' and then launch into a full blown install of some game do I have sound? Does that setup recognize the CD? I don't know as I haven't ever done it that way. - Mark
