Wine bottle management

MrZehl · Post by **MrZehl** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:09 am

I found a nice program to add bottle management to wine in Linux. It wasn't mentioned in the wiki on third party apps, so I added it. But since it wasn't already there, I guess it was not commonly known, so that why I mention it here too. Worthwhile to check out.

http://wibom.sourceforge.net/

AxlRose01 · Post by **AxlRose01** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:37 pm

i create "my botles" without it

lets say for the windows atlantica online for windows, i have the folder nDoors under /home/Owner/nDoors/Atlantica

i go to my /home/Owner/.wine/drive_c/

and there i want my nDoors folder so the path will be /home/Owner/.wine/drive_c/nDoors/Atlantica

just right click the nDoors folder from Owner and click make link, then just move that link to /home/Owner/.wine/drive_c/ and rename it to nDoors

now i can just run my exe from there and will think is really under drive_c

final result : /home/Owner/.wine/drive_c/nDoors/Atlantica/AtlanticaRun.exe

now i dont rellay use winetricks, for some reason on my bad quality compaq cq60, my computer doesnt overheat like same computer or other hp dv line models under windows, enabled all gfx settings on it, and any 3d linux game that download, or any 3d game that i have tried from windows in wine has worked so far, wine just rocks

, doesnt overheat, always cool without a cooling pad and hey is hp/compaq!!!!!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:55 pm

AxlRose01 wrote:i create "my botles" without it

What you creating is not a complete, fully independent wineprefix. So please refrain from recommending such "solutions" in the future.

MrZehl · Post by **MrZehl** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:51 am

Wine bottle management is just a nice GUI to manage bottles with nice features just one click away. So if you want to apply Winetricks just click on the proper icon and select what you want Winetricks to install. If you don't want Winetricks.. no problem.. just don't click the Winetricks icon. Nothing will happen.

It's a basic but very useful program. Makes bottlemanagement easy. And as you did is not a real bottle, but of course you can manage bottles without this. Just on the command line. The hard way. But I think it's unnecessary to do it that way, if it can be done easy with a nice GUI. Wibom doesn't actually add functionality, but just makes it easy.

It's very active maintained by the way. I encountered two minor bugs and they were solved the day I mailed them to the developer. I also did some suggestions for improvement. And I'm translating it to dutch. Only czech en english available at the moment, so if anyone want to help out...
Miro would be grateful if you can send him a translation.

cnbiz850 · Post by **cnbiz850** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:07 pm

That sounds very nice and interesting. Does it work easily and well? Any experiences?

cnbiz850 · Post by **cnbiz850** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:10 pm

Also, a related topic. When I use the bottles scheme, I will have more wineserver's running. How resource friendly are the wineserver's? In other words, how much cost of using the bottles?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:04 am

cnbiz850 wrote:In other words, how much cost of using the bottles?

Wineserver is not a constantly running process. It exits when there are no other win processes left. So the only cost is the minimal disk space required for wineprefix.

cnbiz850 · Post by **cnbiz850** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:04 am

Like it very much.

One thing seemingly missing is to kill processes in the selected bottles. When using Wine normally and a process died, I usually do "wineserver -k". Hope Wibom can add this feature.