Problem with all programs run with wine

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mr_sleepy5
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Problem with all programs run with wine

Post by mr_sleepy5 »

So my issue is that most while most app's open just fine, i can't intereact with anything in them. i can't click on anything within the window. For example, in winefile the cursor isn't even visible while in the winefile window, and I cant click to navigate or even to close the window. I also can't use the keyboard to do anything but quit x11 after opening something with wine.

I'm not entirely sure what happened, as just a few days ago everything was working fantastically. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Post by mr_sleepy5 »

After some more digging, it seems to be a problem with the registry. Is there a way to change the wine registry without using regedit?
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Post by graysky »

I'm no expert but if you have no data of value in your ~/.wine (i.e. you can reinstall stuff) I would nuke that dir... at the very least move it to another name and reinstall your windows stuff. Moving or deleting the dir should completely reset wine.
James McKenzie

Problem with all programs run with wine

Post by James McKenzie »

mr_sleepy5 wrote:
After some more digging, it seems to be a problem with the registry. Is there a way to change the wine registry without using regedit?

The Wine registry is a series of flat files located where your Wine user
files are located. They are named .reg. I would make a copy of them
before editing in case you make a mistake.

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Re: Problem with all programs run with wine

Post by mr_sleepy5 »

graysky wrote:I'm no expert but if you have no data of value in your ~/.wine (i.e. you can reinstall stuff) I would nuke that dir... at the very least move it to another name and reinstall your windows stuff. Moving or deleting the dir should completely reset wine.
Thats what i've done. All better now.
James McKenzie wrote:The Wine registry is a series of flat files located where your Wine user
files are located. They are named .reg. I would make a copy of them
before editing in case you make a mistake.
Forgot to make a copy before adding/changing keys for a program to work. It's obvious enough to me now, of course.
Thanks for helping!
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