hi
i have installed wine. it works fine, but unfortunately, i cant see the .wine folder at my places. how can i make it visible?
what are the reasons, that the folder is invisible by defautl?
peter
.wine invisible
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Frédéric Delanoy
.wine invisible
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:39, peter4444 <[email protected]> wrote:
In Unix, .whatever files or directories are hidden one, that is won't
be visible normally. To see them, just use e.g. the -a option to ls.
If you use a GUI file browser, there is an option to make them visible.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_fil ... vironments
Frédéric
This has nothing to do with wine.hi
i have installed wine. it works fine, but unfortunately, i cant see the .wine folder at my places. how can i make it visible?
what are the reasons, that the folder is invisible by defautl?
peter
In Unix, .whatever files or directories are hidden one, that is won't
be visible normally. To see them, just use e.g. the -a option to ls.
If you use a GUI file browser, there is an option to make them visible.
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_fil ... vironments
Frédéric
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Gert van den Berg
.wine invisible
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:39, peter4444 <[email protected]> wrote:
It is by design..
You can use WINEPREFIX to use something visible.... (the FAQ mentions
it.. If you run Wine from the Terminal, prefixing WINEPREFIX=~/wine
before all commands should result in the visible "wine" directory in
your home directory being used....) (There's other ways to use
WINEPREFIX more automatically, read up on environment variables under
Linux or ask your distibution where you can define them to be defined
at login for GUI sessions)
It is standard practice to hide "settings" directories in a user's
home directory.
Gert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-filehi
i have installed wine. it works fine, but unfortunately, i cant see the .wine folder at my places. how can i make it visible?
what are the reasons, that the folder is invisible by defautl?
It is by design..
You can use WINEPREFIX to use something visible.... (the FAQ mentions
it.. If you run Wine from the Terminal, prefixing WINEPREFIX=~/wine
before all commands should result in the visible "wine" directory in
your home directory being used....) (There's other ways to use
WINEPREFIX more automatically, read up on environment variables under
Linux or ask your distibution where you can define them to be defined
at login for GUI sessions)
It is standard practice to hide "settings" directories in a user's
home directory.
Gert
Once you have shown the invisible files (CTRL+H in Nautilus or View==>Show Hidden Files in Nautilus or Konqueror), you can also make a "shortcut" (symbolic link) to the hidden folder in your /home folder, name it "wine" or whatever your prefix name is, without the dot, so that the link itself is not hidden. The removal of the dot from the name of the link has the additional benefit that it gives the link a different name from the source file/folder (~/wine as opposed to ~/.wine) so it is allowed to be in the same folder as the source.
When you next open the file manager and it returns to its default behaviour (which is to not show hidden files), you will still be able to see the symbolic link and use it as if the .wine folder was visible, without having to unhide hidden files every time (or permanently).
It's mildly annoying to remember to do for every Wine prefix when you create a new prefix (and it's recommended to create a new prefix for every application you install), but it's worth the trouble when you can easily get to your .wine or other dot-folders without having to clog up your view with all of the dot-folders you don't commonly (or ever) actually edit or view the contents of.
Holly
When you next open the file manager and it returns to its default behaviour (which is to not show hidden files), you will still be able to see the symbolic link and use it as if the .wine folder was visible, without having to unhide hidden files every time (or permanently).
It's mildly annoying to remember to do for every Wine prefix when you create a new prefix (and it's recommended to create a new prefix for every application you install), but it's worth the trouble when you can easily get to your .wine or other dot-folders without having to clog up your view with all of the dot-folders you don't commonly (or ever) actually edit or view the contents of.
Holly
