How to switch between current running wine apps

kmptrnerd · Post by **kmptrnerd** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:54 pm

I really don't know how to google this or forum search this question as I have been trying to find the answer for an hour or so. I apologize if it's somewhere on the board spammed a lot but: How do I switch between different running wine apps. Pretty much, how do I use an emulated version of Alt+Tab in Wine? I don't know the hotkey, thanks!

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 28, 2009 9:57 pm

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:54 PM, kmptrnerd <[email protected]> wrote:

I really don't know how to google this or forum search this question as I have been trying to find the answer for an hour or so. I apologize if it's somewhere on the board spammed a lot but: How do I switch between different running wine apps. Pretty much, how do I use an emulated version of Alt+Tab in Wine? I don't know the hotkey, thanks!

Alt+tab should work fine...the windows should be handled by your
window manager as normal windows, unless you've disabled that in
winecfg.

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-Austin

kmptrnerd · Post by **kmptrnerd** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:07 pm

So I was tinkering around with it and "desktop emulation" disables the alt+tabbing from working. Kinda lame cuz I like using desktop emulation.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:10 pm

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, kmptrnerd <[email protected]> wrote:

So I was tinkering around with it and "desktop emulation" disables the alt+tabbing from working. Kinda lame cuz I like using desktop emulation.

Use a different wineprefix for each application.

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-Austin

kmptrnerd · Post by **kmptrnerd** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:18 pm

What do you mean by a wineprefix? How do I do that? I'm not the best at linux nor wine.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:44 pm

austin987 wrote:Use a different wineprefix for each application.

Or separate desktop for each, running them like:

Code: Select all

wine explorer /desktop=foo,1024x768 program1.exe
wine explorer /desktop=bar,1024x768 program2.exe

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 28, 2009 10:51 pm

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
Use a different wineprefix for each application.
Or separate desktop for each, running them like:

Code:
wine explorer /desktop=foo,1024x768 program1.exe
wine explorer /desktop=bar,1024x768 program2.exe

Yes. But be careful, since closing one desktop will then close the others:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13393

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-Austin