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At last, a user-friendly Wine graphical interface (mirror from Gitlab)
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Can't find a way to add selected programs in side panel #7

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

I have Wine installed and a game in its Program Files folder.

Today I installed WineGUI and while I can click on "Run a Program" in the menu bar and select the program from the original Wine folder (not the WineGUI prefix), it doesn't save on the side panel like the gif demonstration in here. I have also tried completely copying the game folder from the original Wine folder to the one WineGUI uses, but it's still not there.

So,

Thank you.

melroy89 commented 2 years ago

Hi.

Well, first of all. The left side panel is not a list of applications/games. The left panel shows the wine bottles (machines).

On the most right side panel, the applications are shown.

Important: Please restore the WineGUI preference setting of the default location back. This can only give you more issues. Please set back to: /home/YOURUSERNAME/.winegui/prefixes

You can create a new wine machine under winegui. And install age of empires in the new winegui machine.

Alternatively, you could try to copy over your current wine folder.

  1. Location you current existing wine bottle (eg. Everything inside /home/YOURUSERNAME/.wine), assuming your currently installed age of empires in that location.
  2. Create a new sub folder in the winegui default location: /home/YOURUSERNAME/.winegui/prefixes.
  3. Copy all files from your current wine bottle towards this new folder.
  4. Restart winegui. Or click on view menu item -> Refresh.

I'm not fully sure an existing wine bottle like copying manually to this winegui folder will work. I think it should just work! And then this machine should be visible on the left side once you copied the whole wine folder contains to this new sub-folder in the ~/.winegui/prefixes/YOURFOLDERNAME/.

Note: if you notice there are sometimes dots before the folder names. Those folders become a hidden directory within Linux.

ghost commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the reply @danger89, I'll do that.

As for the left side panel, I meant the right side panel where all the applications are listed such as the file explorer and winecfg.

melroy89 commented 2 years ago

No problem. Let me know if it's working. Or you need more help or questions.

melroy89 commented 2 years ago

No problems? Any update?