Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Vitaliy Margolen <wine-de...@kievinfo.com> writes: > >> Alexandre Julliard wrote: >>> Again, please demonstrate the exact sequence that leads to an actual >>> problem, not just vague hearsay of people reporting problems that may or >>> may not have anything to do with this. >>> >> Will this work? BTW default Open SuSE configuration. >> >> vita...@dragon:~ $export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-root >> vita...@dragon:~ $sudo wine winecfg >> root's password: >> wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine' > > As you can see it's creating a new prefix under /root, so it's not > messing up the user's prefix. That's perfectly fine. > That part worked you are correct.
However X11 part didn't (missing $DISPLAY). And even if $DISPLAY would be defined in this case all programs will be installed into root's env not user's. No menu entries, no desktop links no visible installed programs - big problem for noob users "where did my stuff go"? Vitaliy.
