On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mokuren<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > I have been pretty satisfied with wine since I have become aware of its existance and am having a pretty good time with it. There are, however, a couple issues I can't wrap my head around. > > First of all, I cannot run regedit as root, it says: Why do you need to run regedit as root? > Code: > wine: /home/mokuren/.wine is not owned by you > > > I don't know how the root is supposed to "not own" something. This isn't a real problem since regedit runs fine not as root, but well... Exactly. Root doesn't own it, mokuren does. > Second issue: I cannot rename keys in regedit. > > I need to create a Direct3D and a DirectInput key with a couple strings in order to fix some issues (one minor, one game-breaking) with a couple games. However, I am only able to create the keys, any attempt at renaming gives no benefit. > > It doesn't matter how many times and how hard I press F2 or how many times I right-click and choose "rename", it absolutely refuses to allow me to change a registry key's name. > > What went wrong? When you say rename, do you mean recase? That fails on windows as well. If renaming fails though, something is wrong. -- -Austin
