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Bottle's app how to access local file

Bottle's app how to access local file Using Linux Mint Mate 21.3 and Bottles version 51.11, I’ve successfully installed PDF-XChange. Now, I need to open a PDF located outside of Bottles directories. What’s the method to do so? Also, I’m wondering if there’s a way to create a desktop shortcut to quickly launch PDF-XChange. Asked …

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dead keys in wine due to my keyboard layout

dead keys in wine due to my keyboard layout I am using Ubuntu 23.10 and have a few games running through wine. These work perfectly other than some keys not being recognized from my keyboard. These are French characters like é, ç, à, … Only games ran via wine/steam do not respond to me pressing …

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Meaning of the aptitude search output for wine-staging

Meaning of the aptitude search output for wine-staging I’ve installed winehq-staging package from winehq repo in debian 12 instead of from debian repo which I’ll be using from Lutris. After that I listed what got installed with: aptitude search ‘?narrow(?installed,?origin(dl.winehq.org))’ And this command printed out: i A wine-staging – WINE Is Not An Emulator – …

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Disabling the Recycle Bin in Wine

Disabling the Recycle Bin in Wine I use Wine to run one program. That program has the unfortunate tendency to create large numbers of temporary files, all of which it deletes to the Windows recycle bin. Wine implements that by deleting them to my Cinnamon trash, which happens to be on a different physical device. …

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How to run a PDF file with wine app (Foxit PDF Editor Pro)?

How to run a PDF file with wine app (Foxit PDF Editor Pro)? I want to create a Python function to open a PDF file with the Foxit PDF Editor Pro Application (wine app), my function is as follows: def open_with_foxit(output_path): command = ["wine", "/home/lediem/Wine/FoxitPDFEditor/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Foxit Software/Foxit PDF Editor/FoxitPDFEditor.exe", output_path] subprocess.Popen(command) After running: open_with_foxit(‘/home/lediem/Dropbox/LATEX …

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Illegible fonts in one part of a wine application

Illegible fonts in one part of a wine application I’m having a weird wine font problem when trying to run the Portable D&D 4e Compendium on linux. Here’s an image of the issue: As you can see (it might be easier to see if you open it fully instead of looking at it in preview …

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Wine to install Archer T2U Plus Driver (for Windows) in Xubuntu

Wine to install Archer T2U Plus Driver (for Windows) in Xubuntu I have an Archer T2U Plus WiFi Adapter. After purchasing I came to know that it only supports Windows and macOS and I want to run it on my Xubuntu 22.04 LTS. I had searched regarding this thing on Stackoverflow, GitHub, AskUbuntu and various …

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WINE: Age of Empires II black screen problem

WINE: Age of Empires II black screen problem I installed Age of Empires II HD edition through PlayOnLinux and game launches fine, as seen on the picture below, however when I try to play a game there is a black screen instead of the game (Map, etc. shows up fine but the game doesn’t, as …

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Launch bottles application from command line

Launch bottles application from command line I have installed bottles for Windows application emulation. I am trying to start an application via command line but have not been able to start the application automatically. It opens up the bottle but the application does not start and it requires a manual start. I would like to …

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How to pipe STDIO from a thread process to /dev/null?

How to pipe STDIO from a thread process to /dev/null? I am trying to run Plarium Play with wine, but have encountered an odd issue. When trying to launch it from a regular desktop entry, I get this JavaScript error: This does not happen if I launch from the terminal. If I try and launch …

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Winetricks ubuntu 23.04 won't launch

Winetricks ubuntu 23.04 won't launch After fresh install getting the following: $ winetricks Executing mkdir -p /home/usr —————————————————— warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug. —————————————————— —————————————————— WINEPREFIX INFO: Drive …

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Having trouble with TRON 2.0 WAN multiplayer on Proton

Having trouble with TRON 2.0 WAN multiplayer on Proton So, I’m trying to do WAN multiplayer in TRON 2.0 (Windows-only game released decades ago and is now on Steam), but I can’t see any servers (listed on GameSpy), and my friend can’t connect to me with my IP even though I have port forwarding set …

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unable to install `wine` in Devuan due to "supposedly identical version of libwine:amd64"

unable to install `wine` in Devuan due to "supposedly identical version of libwine:amd64" I’m in Devuan Chimaera. I had installed it in two machines before the current one. So I have also installed WINE before on Devuan. Somehow, strangely, I get this warning: sudo apt install wine wine64 wine32-preloader winbind winetricks –no-install-recommends blah…blah… W: Sources …

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How to get the list of verbs installed on winetricks

How to get the list of verbs installed on winetricks How can I check which verbs are installed on my wine prefix? I want to list only the installed ones. For example, on apt package manager, I can type apt list –installed to display the installed packages. Something like that. Asked By: Meraj al Maksud …

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Start wine graphical application from .desktop file

Start wine graphical application from .desktop file Context I’m trying to start Ableton Live which I installed through wine (and is working perfectly might I add!) by simply clicking on an icon in the taskbar. Normal behavior If I run the command from a terminal, which looks like wine /path/to/program.exe everything works perfectly: I get …

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Is there a way to emulate Windows in Linux like WSL?

Is there a way to emulate Windows in Linux like WSL? My question is: Is there something like LSW (Linux subsystem for Windows) for Linux? If yes, which and how do I install it? Please avoid comments like "Why would you want to do this?" because I’m really interested in this. Asked By: Notiq || …

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Unable to install an application via Wine that requires .Net4

Unable to install an application via Wine that requires .Net4 I’m trying to install the trial of this application in a wineprefix 32bit: https://www.dextronet.com/swift-to-do-list-software It request dotnet 4, it is included in the installer in case it is not detected on the system. When I start the application, error with crash log occour. Installed: screenshot …

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How can I completely remove wine?

How can I completely remove wine? I’m trying to remove wine completely from Ubuntu. I’ve already used several commands that say I no longer have wine installed, but when I run sudo apt-get update there are always remnants of wine. Hit:1 https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease Get:2 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu eoan InRelease [6,255 B] Ign:3 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu lunar InRelease Hit:4 …

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wine (64bit prefix) fails url opening from the app

wine (64bit prefix) fails url opening from the app Launching KSPLauncher (Kerbal space program) everything works smoothly except this … every time I want to open some web links I see jumping firefox icon near my cursor for 3 seconds then nothing happening Each attempt spawns such log (using `journalctl -xef`) Is there any way …

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How to install Spitfire Audio on Wine with DXVK on Ubuntu 22.04?

How to install Spitfire Audio on Wine with DXVK on Ubuntu 22.04? I installed Spitfire Audio on Ubuntu 22.04 (using Wine) but all I have is a black window. If I play around with resizing it and moving it around, I can get misplaced/suplicated text (but a lot is missing). Another user got this same …

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