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WINE tips: Giving each Windows application its own environment
I’m going to tell you about the useful WINEPREFIX environment variable, and, as a bonus, you’ll also find out how to install Office 2007 and IrfanView in WINE, plus how to configure file associations...
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WINE tips: How to associate IrfanView with an image file type in Linux
In my previous post I showed how to install IrfanView with a WINEPREFIX. This time I’m going to show you how to associate IrfanView with a particular image file type so that IrfanView launches and...
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How to play MSS2 codec (Windows Media Video 9 Screen) .wmv files in 64-bit Linux
One type of legacy .wmv file uses the ‘Windows Media Video 9 Screen’ MSS2 codec (“DMO-based codec, optimized for low-bitrate sequential screen captures or screencasts”, according to Wikipedia). Now, it...
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Editing from a Linux PC the phone book (contacts list) in an Android phone
A mobile phone stores contacts in the phone itself and/or on the SIM. Over the years, the phone book on my SIM became cluttered with duplicate entries, inconsistently-named contacts, and so on. I...
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Installing the Windows version of Google Earth in WINE
Some Gentoo Linux users have reported that, although the native Linux release of Google Earth crashes, they can run the Windows version successfully under WINE. However, those users have also reported...
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Installing Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in in WINE
I use 64-bit (~amd64) multilib Gentoo Linux on my main laptop, and had been using successfully Version 0.2.3 of the Pipelight browser plug-in in 64-bit Firefox 29.0.1 for Linux to access an office...
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WINE tips: File associations of Windows applications in Linux
I have several applications for Windows installed under WINE in Linux. These applications launch correctly if I double-click on a file for that application, but, in the case of some of these...
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WINE tips: File associations for Windows applications in Linux (continued)
There is a downside to the approach described in my previous post regarding file associations for Windows applications run via WINE, at least in the case of KDE. By using KDE’s ‘System Settings’ >...
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How to enable a Windows application in WINE to access a Samba share on a NAS
I recently installed the Windows application PDF-XChange Editor under WINE in Gentoo Linux on one of my laptops. The application works fine but it could not detect the SMB/CIFS (Samba) share folder on...
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Completing PDF forms and adding your signature without having to print the form
A recent post in the Gentoo Forums made me interested to find out what is actually achievable with fillable PDF forms in Gentoo Linux and Windows 10 without being required to purchase a software...
View ArticleMoving to the slotted WINE package system in Gentoo Linux
Earlier this year the Gentoo Linux developers responsible for maintaining the package app-emulation/wine decided to split it and slot it so that different versions of WINE can be installed and co-exist...
View ArticleHow to enable a Windows application in WINE to access a Samba share on a NAS...
In a 2016 post ‘How to enable a Windows application in WINE to access a Samba share on a NAS‘ I explained how to mount in Linux a networked SMB shared folder so that a Windows application running via...
View ArticleRecreating missing WINE menu entries and Desktop Configuration Files in...
I use a few Windows applications I installed via WINE in my user account on my family’s desktop machine running Lubuntu 20.10 (LXQt Desktop Environment). A few days ago I logged in and found that the...
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