On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:04:23 +0100, Martin wrote: > > a first question on Wine - > > do i just install the windows programs i want into a folder in eg my home > directory and then when starting wine in my shell point it there?
If you're using the fake Windows installation, just install your applications in "drive_c" of your /home/user/.wine directory. Start wine with or without a terminal. If you want to see messages (while still getting wine configured and so forth), open a terminal and type "wine" at the prompt. The log of what's happening as wine start up and runs will show in the terminal window. Wine starts in its own separate window. You can set up a desktop icon to do this. You can also run wine from the launcher on the start menu by typing "wine" -- no separate terminal will open to show ongoing wine messages. Wine assumes it is in "C:" -- so you can usually start your program by typing [program_name].exe to start an application. Everything then should be exactly as it is under Windows. Once you're comfortable with how it works, you can create icons, links, and so forth to automate things and make it all appear more Windows-like. The only thing I would caution you about is in setting up your mime types -- don't allow Linux to automatically start an application using wine by clicking on a Windows executable. I like to use XWine (not the same thing as WineX which is the version of wine fully implementing DirectX for gaming). XWine came on my Mandrake CDs. It acts as a gui front-end to wine which helps with all aspects of installing and configuring both wine itself and Windows applications. I found it particularly useful in configuring each application as to which dlls had to be native or built-in. The configuration file it produced was quite informative. There has also recently been announced a new and improved Winetools for doing something similar. I've not tried it, so cannot really comment on how well it works. > I have been confused about this simple little point to start with!! > > will most programs using windows code work or only those "supported" with a > build of some type? I would like to run my Polar heart arte Monitor, my > Printer (HP Laserjet 1000) and my digital camera with Wine if possible. Any equipment or peripheral should be installed in Linux and run from Linux. Windows apps running from wine will be able to find and use them. They should be identified in your wine configuration file. In particular, your printer (definitely) and your digital camera (likely) should be installed in Linux. I don't know if Linux will run your heart monitor. Since there are certain drivers and files connected with devices wine does not implement (and will not be implementing due to licensing issues), it is possible that wine will not run the heart monitor (actually it's likely that it will not). In general, devices must be run from Linux -- not wine. The Windows software for the devices can be run from wine (maybe -- depends on what dlls and so forth it needs), but not the devices themselves. If you need to run devices that Linux doesn't run, you should consider VMWare or Win4Lin. They install a virtual machine on your Linux machine and will run Windows. You need to already own a copy of Windows and install it in the virtual machine, and then install your device. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see WordStar Users Group Community http://www.wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users/index.php -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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