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Wine Launcher - Running Windows games under Linux
http://wine.hostronavt.ru
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Appimagelauncher interferes with wine-launcher #13

Closed Ahmed-E-86 closed 4 years ago

Ahmed-E-86 commented 4 years ago

I have appimagelauncher installed on my system, and I use it to open .appimage files on my system, and it works quite fine, but when I use it to open wine-launcher, I get these errors in the terminal:

wine: chdir to /run/user/1000/appimagelauncherfs/prefix : No such file or directory
wine: chdir to /run/user/1000/appimagelauncherfs/prefix : No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/run/user/1000/appimagelauncherfs/prefix/drive_c/Games': No such file or directory

wine-launcher is not aware that it is run by another application, and that is the cause of this issue.

hitman249 commented 4 years ago

This problem is known. Appimagelauncher makes low-level interference with WL work. Recommendations from the appimagelauncher project itself did not help. There is no way to get around this, and WL is currently held hostage by Appimagelauncher. If you want to use WL, you will have to uninstall Appimagelauncher and reboot. There will be no corrections at the code level because there is nothing to write, there is no solution.

probonopd commented 4 years ago

cc @TheAssassin

Bitwolfies commented 3 years ago

Strange, appimagelauncher didnt even try to manage this project, yet you still tell me I need to "uninstall it", did they blacklist it?

hitman249 commented 3 years ago

I do not follow this project, but at that time they completely blocked the normal operation of many AppImage applications.
For which they earned fame, to some extent, more like malware than something useful.
I tried to negotiate with them and implemented what they asked, but it did not help at that time.
Perhaps the situation has changed, but I do not want to mock my users.

In general, AppimageLauncher intercepts many system calls and behaves like a complete malware. Its even from the system is not easy to remove. Of course it is not malware, but I would still prefer to stay away from it.