Who am i? and where is C:?

[Derek McGowan]

in your home directory, there is a hidden directory called .wine - look there

Derek



----- Original Message ----
From: gcampton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:11:15 AM
Subject: [Wine] Who am i? and where is C:?

Hello,

I just started using linux a cpl days ago, still trying to wrap my head around things and of course not willing to part entirely with windows

I'm a student studying Software dev (c++, Java) and Database design.

I installed Wine just now, and notepad++ i directed installation to C:/Program Files/Notepad++, under install ticked %APPDATA% as i assumed Wine would actually create a Pretend C: directly in usr/local/bin or something to that effect... %APPDATA% is config file stored in local directory of notepad++

after reading through the entire FAQ, i went to the folder as i wanted to install plugins into notepad directory, i noticed the config file was sent to my desktop, wierd, i noticed that all the files where the FAQ or docs (i read them both) said they would be were not...

so wtf? where is C: exactly? does it exsist? and if not then how do i install plugins?

[gcampton]

thanks


ooooooooooo theres lots of other crap there i wondered where it was

[Nik N]

On 8/12/08, Derek McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:

in your home directory, there is a hidden directory called .wine - look
there

Why, oh why does it have to be a hidden directory?
Hidden from who, and for what purpose?
Is there any way (short of re-compiling wine) to change that and make
it a normal directory called simply "wine"?
nik

[Daniel Kasak]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 04:52 +0000, Nik N wrote:

On 8/12/08, Derek McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:

in your home directory, there is a hidden directory called .wine - look
there

Why, oh why does it have to be a hidden directory?
Hidden from who, and for what purpose?

It's to stop polluting my home folder with stuff that I'm not interested
in. It's common to put config files and stuff into hidden files &
folders.

Is there any way (short of re-compiling wine) to change that and make
it a normal directory called simply "wine"?

How about:
ln -s .wine wine
... from your home folder?


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[vitamin]

On 8/12/08, Derek McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:

in your home directory, there is a hidden directory called .wine - look
there

Why, oh why does it have to be a hidden directory?
Hidden from who, and for what purpose?
Is there any way (short of re-compiling wine) to change that and make
it a normal directory called simply "wine"?
nik

Not that easy. But you can symlink it.

[dimesio]

Is there any way (short of re-compiling wine) to change that and make
it a normal directory called simply "wine"?

You can rename .wine to anything you want, but you will then have to edit your menu entries and desktop links so WINEPREFIX= points to the new location. If you run your programs from the command line, you will have to include the wineprefix variable:

WINEPREFIX=/home/user/whatever wine program.exe

You can have as many different wineprefixes as you like--just remember to specify which one you're using each time. (If you don't specify the wineprefix, Wine will use .wine.)

[Jim]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Nik N <[email protected]> wrote:

On 8/12/08, Derek McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:

in your home directory, there is a hidden directory called .wine - look
there

Why, oh why does it have to be a hidden directory?
Hidden from who, and for what purpose?

Reduce clutter. Your home directory stores a lot of things. The idea
is that background things you won't *normally* be accessing directly -
program data, etc. Is stored in hidden files/driectories to make it
easier to find the things you will use frequently. If you want to see
a hidden directory, try 'ls -a' on the command line. The 'hidden' is
more of a convenience thing than a function/security/restriction
thing. Once you are used to it, it also becomes VERY convenient.

Is there any way (short of re-compiling wine) to change that and make
it a normal directory called simply "wine"?

There have been a couple of answers to this, for most users, the
symlink is the easiest.

In a command line:
$ cd ~
$ ln -s .wine wine


Note: I often get the 'ln' ops backwards, you might want to check the
man page. It might be 'ln -s wine .wine', but I'm fairly sure it's
what I wrote above.

-Jim Stapleton