Disable the Gecko HTML rendering prompt?

[DarksideEE7]

With all of my wine prefixes is getting a little annoying to have this pop up every time I update wine or start a new prefix. Is there a way to disable it globally, or at least within each prefix?

Thanks!

[dimesio]

With all of my wine prefixes is getting a little annoying to have this pop up every time I update wine or start a new prefix. Is there a way to disable it globally, or at least within each prefix?

If gecko is installed properly on your system, you won't get the prompt at all. http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

[DarksideEE7]

With all of my wine prefixes is getting a little annoying to have this pop up every time I update wine or start a new prefix. Is there a way to disable it globally, or at least within each prefix?

If gecko is installed properly on your system, you won't get the prompt at all. http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

So in that case then a bug should be written up for the dialog box? It doesn't install it correctly, so what's the point of that prompt existing at all?

[dimesio]

So in that case then a bug should be written up for the dialog box? It doesn't install it correctly, so what's the point of that prompt existing at all?

The point of the prompt is to let you know that gecko isn't installed. Apps need it for html rendering.

If your distro doesn't package gecko properly, you need to report that to your distro. You can still install gecko yourself following the instructions I linked you to. If you are building Wine yourself, you will also have to install gecko yourself.

[DarksideEE7]

So in that case then a bug should be written up for the dialog box? It doesn't install it correctly, so what's the point of that prompt existing at all?

The point of the prompt is to let you know that gecko isn't installed. Apps need it for html rendering.

If your distro doesn't package gecko properly, you need to report that to your distro. You can still install gecko yourself following the instructions I linked you to. If you are building Wine yourself, you will also have to install gecko yourself.

I see what you're saying, but the prompt also has an install or cancel option, and it installs gecko under:

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drive_c/windows/syswow64/gecko/1.0.0/wine_gecko

I'll perform the procedure from the wiki and see if that fixes it, but I think that if the prompt offers to install wine then it should fully work, or not offer to install at all. That's really the main reason I made this thread, since it actually does install and function correctly, only it continues to nag every time wine updates.

[DarksideEE7]

So it looks like I'll need to submit a tracker to the maintainer of the wine package in Arch's multilib repo to compile it with gecko upon each update....I see what you mean. Gecko needs to be compiled in each time.

So the install button does work how it should.

[dimesio]

I see what you're saying, but the prompt also has an install or cancel option, and it installs gecko under:

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drive_c/windows/syswow64/gecko/1.0.0/wine_gecko

If you're using Wine 1.3.2 or later, you need gecko 1.1.0.