Running applicaation in Wine

noob · Post by **noob** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:15 pm

Hi,
I am new here and your forum has no search facility for us new ones to search before posting questions, so I have to send this question:

1. After installing Windows application, which Wine run automatically, it showed the icon (the app is RCT3) on the root desktop but none on the users' desktop.

How do I make this available to other users? In your guide, it states that we should never run the app under root, yet the same guide shows only how to run the app in the root terminal, and nothing on other terminal.

2. Can't you make easier for us, newbies, to install and the run the program without having to go thru the configuration, envrironment setting etc?

3. For us newbies it frustrates us to have this learning curve so steep that we may never get out of MS chain.

Thanks.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:20 pm

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM, noob <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,
I am new here and your forum has no search facility for us new ones to search before posting questions, so I have to send this question:

Yes it does. Look on the left (though, that really should be easier).

1. After installing Windows application, which Wine run automatically, it showed the icon (the app is RCT3) on the root desktop but none on the users' desktop.

Why are you running as root?

How do I make this available to other users? In your guide, it states that we should never run the app under root, yet the same guide shows only how to run the app in the root terminal, and nothing on other terminal.

Install app for each user. You can't (currently) share apps between
users. What guide are you mentioning?

2. Can't you make easier for us, newbies, to install and the run the program without having to go thru the configuration, envrironment setting etc?

3. For us newbies it frustrates us to have this learning curve so steep that we may never get out of MS chain.

Much of this is in the FAQ.

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-Austin

noob · Post by **noob** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:24 am

thanks for the reply.

Got tired of trying to, so I decided to uninstall wine and the application and install it back to vista.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:55 am

noob wrote:

Hi,
I am new here and your forum has no search facility for us new ones to search before posting questions, so I have to send this question:

1. After installing Windows application, which Wine run automatically, it showed the icon (the app is RCT3) on the root desktop but none on the users' desktop.

Do not run Wine as root! This breaks many things.

Re-install Wine as one of your users and run there.

James McKenzie