I'd like to know where wine writes. I am not speaking about applications wine executes, they can obviously write everywhere the user privileges allows (via z:/), but of wine itself. I saw that even using WINEPREFIX wine writes in ~/.local, sometime it leaves .desktop files around. Why is that? When wine writes exactly? Can I force wine keeping everything it needs in its WINEPREFIX folder? (reason: I made few packages of windows applications, they should work most possibly as linux native ones) thanks, a RTM answer is fine if you point me in the right direction.