Is it possible to change how new Wine bottles are created?

[zzarko]

I'd like to disable linking of Windows directories to my home directory by default when creating a new bottle (i.e. Wine My Documents shouldn't link to my home directory, etc.). Is it possible to somewhere change default settings for new bottles? Or, at least, to unlink these directories from command line?

Thanks!

[dimesio]

You can change or remove them in winecfg, on the Desktop Integration tab. Winetricks sandbox is a quick way to remove all of them, but it will also remove the symlink to the z: drive, which may break some apps.

[zzarko]

Yes, I know I can change that in winecfg, but I wanted to skip this step completely. I didn't know about sandbox option in winetricks, but it looks like it would do the job (at least I can run that from command line - I want to automate some tasks when creating bottles). Thanks!

[zzarko]

Hmmm... Sandbox option does more than just unlinking home directories, because using that option makes most of games that I tried unrunnable. If I unlink them manually, everything is OK. Any other way to unlink from command line or to not link at all?

[lahmbi5678]

Hm, you could write a shell (bash, Perl, Python, etc) script, which would remove the symlinks. You'd have to execute that script after creating the new wineprefix (the term bottle is used by Codeweavers).

[dimesio]

that option makes most of games that I tried unrunnable.

I did warn you about that.

Winetricks is a script. You can edit it in any text editor and comment out the part where it removes the z: drive symlink. The downside is that you will have to do that every time you update winetricks. An alternative is to copy the section of winetricks that removes the desktop integration symlinks, without the part that removes the z: link, and run that as a standalone script.