Wine On OSX

Michael Reich · Post by **Michael Reich** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:00 pm

I'm a new user of Wine (Darwine) on Mac OSX and wonder it it's necessary
for the "Wine Log" to open each time I start up a Win app under Wine.
The Log never shows any data and I'd just as soon not have to
continually close it if there's a way to stop it from opening each
time. Haven't found anything obvious in Preferences to control this
behavior.

Thanks in advance for any help.

gat · Post by **gat** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:38 pm

in the preferences command-comma under the tab headed change the radio-button for the left and the right side to either a file or null (which I assume means no output whatsoever). If that does not work then you might just have to deal with it and hide the application with command-h since the wine applications are running under x11.app anyhow.

Michael Reich · Post by **Michael Reich** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:25 pm

gat wrote:

in the preferences command-comma under the tab headed change the radio-button for the left and the right side to either a file or null (which I assume means no output whatsoever). If that does not work then you might just have to deal with it and hide the application with command-h since the wine applications are running under x11.app anyhow.

If you're referring to the tab labeled "Redirections," I already have
the radio buttons for both "redirct stdout" and "redirect stderr"
selected for "null" but it isn't stopping Wine Log and (sometimes) a
"Wine Processes" window from opening. I don't know if they are products
of Wine or X11...

gat · Post by **gat** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:22 pm

try the file log then

Michael Reich · Post by **Michael Reich** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:52 pm

gat wrote:

try the file log then

Um...I'm new at OSX and Wine. Could you be more specific? Try what
with what file log? Thanks.

gat · Post by **gat** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:08 am

the option above null is write into a file, so try that option instead of null if null does not work.

Michael Reich · Post by **Michael Reich** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:00 am

gat wrote:

the option above null is write into a file, so try that option instead of null if null does not work.

Well, that "works" but creates a bigger problem (for me). The desktop
becomes littered with a bunch of log files - I think that was the
default setting to start off and I changed it to nul to avoid all the
litter. Using nul gets rid of the log files on the desktop but still
opens the Wine Log file as well as a "process window" each time I run a
program such as Irfanview. I guess I'll have to get used to either
hiding or closing them; that's preferable to having all those log files
created on the desktop.

Thanks for the suggestions, gat.