On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmschwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Austin English wrote: > | You could run wineprefixcreate, then use a shell script to edit > | ~/.wine/user.reg & ~/.wine/system.reg. > > I have been storing "good" copies of these two files, and using a shell > script to copy them into the appropriate location. Unfortunately, this > does not seem to have the desired effect. For example, if I > > use winecfg to set the DPI to 160, > exit wine, > back up user.reg and system.reg, > run wineprefixcreate, > copy user.reg and system.reg back into ~/.wine/, > and start a new program, > > the new program starts at 96 DPI again. > > Clearly I am doing something wrong. Two suggestions. 1. If you must modify user.reg and system.reg by hand, make sure that wineserver has shut down first, e.g. wineserver -w. 2. Rather than modifying those files by hand, use regedit to do it. See http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks for an example of how to script this. - Dan
