Hello!
Today I am going to talk something less in need, but more in demand. Its all in demand when you accidentally, or experimentally end up with your wine.
For those who know what 'wine' is, that's good.
For those who don't know, Wine is a Windows compatibility Layer for Linux, and has been misunderstood as Windows Emulator.
On contrary, WINE means "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
For more clarity, kindly read Debunking Wine Myths.
What made me write this post is whilst I was experimenting with Wine installed on my Ubuntu, and there was some application to be executed on win98, so I had my winecfg (wine configuration utility) set in compatibility mode for windows 98 then executed my windows executable file. To my horror, not only the application failed to execute, but also my wine stopped functioning.
I tried to run winecfg, but in vain. Even that wasn't working.
I tried uninstalling wine, also tried to do it with purge remove and tried re-installing but even then in vain.
Also tried to check the system.reg,user.reg files in the location /home/user/.wine but in vain. Had tough luck in troubleshooting the error.
On analysis, I could see in the task manager that the process 'wine' and all the other associated processes were running, but were not showing up.
The last resort - - -
After googling, I found out that while wine is started, it looks for configuration from the .wine directory and then presents the output accordingly.
Here is what I could understand then. I just renamed the .wine folder to something else, rather .wine1, or you could even rename it as .wine.backup
That's it!
After renaming the directory, just try running wine again.
It works like a charm!
So, now there is no need to whine over wine. :D :)
Good day!
Today I am going to talk something less in need, but more in demand. Its all in demand when you accidentally, or experimentally end up with your wine.
For those who know what 'wine' is, that's good.
For those who don't know, Wine is a Windows compatibility Layer for Linux, and has been misunderstood as Windows Emulator.
On contrary, WINE means "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
For more clarity, kindly read Debunking Wine Myths.
What made me write this post is whilst I was experimenting with Wine installed on my Ubuntu, and there was some application to be executed on win98, so I had my winecfg (wine configuration utility) set in compatibility mode for windows 98 then executed my windows executable file. To my horror, not only the application failed to execute, but also my wine stopped functioning.
I tried to run winecfg, but in vain. Even that wasn't working.
I tried uninstalling wine, also tried to do it with purge remove and tried re-installing but even then in vain.
Also tried to check the system.reg,user.reg files in the location /home/user/.wine but in vain. Had tough luck in troubleshooting the error.
On analysis, I could see in the task manager that the process 'wine' and all the other associated processes were running, but were not showing up.
The last resort - - -
After googling, I found out that while wine is started, it looks for configuration from the .wine directory and then presents the output accordingly.
Here is what I could understand then. I just renamed the .wine folder to something else, rather .wine1, or you could even rename it as .wine.backup
That's it!
After renaming the directory, just try running wine again.
It works like a charm!
So, now there is no need to whine over wine. :D :)
Good day!