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AllRadioisDead
February 10th, 2009, 01:38 AM
Hi, I recently installed Halo custom edition. I had to configure wine to use a virtual desktop for halo to display properly, but I don't want all my programs using the virtual Desktop. How can I fix this?
hikaricore
February 10th, 2009, 02:37 AM
Hi, I recently installed Halo custom edition. I had to configure wine to use a virtual desktop for halo to display properly, but I don't want all my programs using the virtual Desktop. How can I fix this?

wine explorer /desktop=Halo,1400x1050 whateverthebinaryforhaloiscalled

Launch halo as such^ replacing the desktop size of 1400x1050 with whatever you need it to be sized at and replacing whateverthebinaryforhaloiscalled with the name of the Halo binary.

This way you can launch Halo in it's own virtual desktop and have all other WINE applications launch normally (after of course modifying the setting for WINE).
Ng Oon-Ee
February 10th, 2009, 03:18 AM
The other way is to use WINEPREFIX=<somedirectory> in front of all your HALO related commands, and creating a copy of ~/.wine in <somedirectory> which is only used for HALO.

This has the added benefit that your HALO installation and all its settings/registry fixes is separate from your main ~/.wine installation.
cb951303
February 10th, 2009, 03:52 AM
another way is to fireup winecfg, add and select halo.exe in the applications list, enabling virtual desktop
AllRadioisDead
February 10th, 2009, 04:00 AM
another way is to fireup winecfg, add and select halo.exe in the applications list, enabling virtual desktop
Woah! I didn't know you could do that, that's incredible. I had no idea the wine CFG allowed you to configure settings for specific programs, thanks a lot! Thanks for the other posts as well, but this one really blew me away.
hikaricore
February 10th, 2009, 04:47 AM
another way is to fireup winecfg, add and select halo.exe in the applications list, enabling virtual desktop

Meh I completely forgot about that.

When I was your age we didn't have fancy winecfg individual applicaion configuration.
We walked uphill both ways through the lava to launch our apps and they all ran at 1fps.
And you know what? We liked it. :lolflag: