WineGUI How to access default prefix?

I'm not sure how to access default prefix located at ~/.wine? Is there a way to do that at all?

Oct 22 '22 11:10 junglized

All data is stored in ~/.winegui, including the bottles in the sub folder prefixes within ~/.winegui.

Although you can change this location at your will via the winegui settings.

Oct 22 '22 12:10 melroy89

If I choose ~/.wine I get a lot of errors. Probably because ~/.wine is itself a prefix, not a folder storing different prefixes. Maybe you should consider adding option of managing default prefix? That would be great.

Oct 24 '22 19:10 junglized

I would Not advice to change the data folder to ~/.wine. This as you said could only give you issues.

Better would be to change it the other way around. What I mean is that you copy or move the default wine bottle into the prefixes directory of ~/.winegui.

You also might want to rename .wine to something else.

That being said, it could break existing shortcuts on your dekstop for example still pointing to the old location.

Supporting the default prefix is indeed a good suggestion. Thanks! I will really consider this feature.

Oct 24 '22 23:10 melroy89

I'll wait until default prefix is a feature before I start using WineGUI. I keep all of my installed Windows apps in default prefix. Other that that it's a very good app.

Oct 29 '22 08:10 junglized

OK. No problem. I will try to implement default prefix as soon as I can within WineGUI.

Oct 29 '22 14:10 melroy89

MR: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui/-/merge_requests/10

Oct 29 '22 21:10 melroy89

It's implemented already! New release is available (v1.9.0). You can download it here: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui/-/releases

Oct 29 '22 22:10 melroy89

I saw that yesterday, I wanted to try compile from source today but now I see you made deb package as well. Sh*t, that was lightning fast I have to say. Thank you!

Oct 30 '22 08:10 junglized

I had already deb packages available for 3 years.

Oct 30 '22 19:10 melroy89

I meant deb package for WineGUI 1.9.0. It wasn't there when I looked in the repo those 20 hours or so ago. I have to say, this app is better than Bottles. I like the ease of use and design of UI.

Oct 30 '22 19:10 junglized

I meant deb package for WineGUI 1.9.0. It wasn't there when I looked in the repo those 20 hours or so ago. I have to say, this app is better than Bottles. I like the ease of use and design of UI.

Ow it has CI/CD pipeline so it might take 1 or 2 minutes before the package is build and deployed. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks! I also didn't like the Bottle UI, this is one of the reasons I created WineGUI as well.

Oct 31 '22 13:10 melroy89

I know it's an old issue, but just for info. Since version 2.1.0 we changed the default location of the Wine bottles, instead of using the home folder ~/.winegui, we use better locations now!

So config is stored in ~/.config/winegui/, and the data including the Wine prefixes, are stored in ~/.local/share/winegui, prefixes are in the sub-folder prefixes, so: ~/.local/share/winegui/prefixes.

Just a heads-up, if somebody find this GitHub issue in the future.

May 28 '23 22:05 melroy89