Having installed and used Wine in Ubuntu 11.1, I assumed the install and use of Wine in Ubuntu 12.1 would be essentially the same. Even though I have installed three Windows apps successfully in 12.1, there is no Wine menu option with four submenu options to be found in Applications, nor is there a Wine folder to be seen in Home. I can call up Wine cfg in terminal, and it shows the normal path, but it's not actually visible in the files.
This would be fine, I suppose, except I have a Windows app, Notepad++, that doesn't come with an installer. There are two versions within a zip file, which I can extract, but without Wine setup I can't create desktop access to app. Wine icon shows up in Unity launcher if I double click on app in its folder, and app runs fine, but when I close it, Wine icon is removed from launcher.
I actually removed and reinstalled Wine, but nothing changed. Do I have to do something else to have Wine become menu item and have wine/c_drive become visible?
Wine installed Ubuntu 12.1, and works, but invisible
Re: Wine installed Ubuntu 12.1, and works, but invisible
The default wineprefix is ~/.wine, which is a hidden directory, but you can install to any other wineprefix you like, and they don't have to be hidden. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix
Re: Wine installed Ubuntu 12.1, and works, but invisible
Good grief, is this really a solution? Why is .wine/drive_c hidden in the first place in 12.1 but not 11.1? Can't I simply make the current location visible in settings? And why doesn't Wine menu and options show up in system menus by default as it does in 11.1? Trying to understand this without complicating the issue with prefixes.
Re: Wine installed Ubuntu 12.1, and works, but invisible
Directories that begin with a . are hidden in Linux. The default wineprefix has always been .wine, and always been a hidden directory, for as long as I've been using Wine, which is about 5 years. If your previous wineprefix was not .wine, and not hidden, that would only be because whoever created it set it up to be something different.
Yes, of course you can set your file manager to show hidden files.
As for menu items, plain Wine does not add menu items for its builtin programs (winecfg, notepad, etc.), but some distros do add those to their Wine packages. AFAIK, Ubuntu still does that, so if it's not working, ask for help on the Ubuntu forum. Winemenubuilder should add menu items for apps you install, but cannot do this for apps that don't have installers. You should be able to manually create menu items for those apps with whatever menu editor comes with your distro.
Yes, of course you can set your file manager to show hidden files.
As for menu items, plain Wine does not add menu items for its builtin programs (winecfg, notepad, etc.), but some distros do add those to their Wine packages. AFAIK, Ubuntu still does that, so if it's not working, ask for help on the Ubuntu forum. Winemenubuilder should add menu items for apps you install, but cannot do this for apps that don't have installers. You should be able to manually create menu items for those apps with whatever menu editor comes with your distro.
