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Import existing wineprefixes and/or select default base dir?

Asked by krank23

Since I've been using wineprefixes for some time now, I have a number of them already set up. I've always just placed them in ~/winebottles for easy access.

Question is, is it possible, or could it be made possible (wishlist?) to add these to Vineyard? I mean, import them in any way, or just point Vineyard to their current location?

Vineyard uses ~/.local/share/wineprefixes by default; would it be possible to give the user the ability to change this? I don't need a fancy UI way of doing it, gconf:ing or editing conf files by hand is just fine by me. Not a big deal, of course, provided my bottles can be imported I can always ln -s.

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#1

Absolutely.

Vineyard uses the environment variable WINEPREFIXES to determine where to load prefixes from, so just set that in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile or where ever you prefer.

F.x. add:
WINEPREFIXES="$HOME/winebottles"

to ~/.profile.

It won't override Vineyard's default locations (yes, plural, it also uses ~/.winebottles for prefixes created in older versions of Vineyard), but it will take precedence.

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#2

Oh, let me know how it goes with using your existing prefixes.
Vineyard has support for prefixes created by other programs, but it's always nice to get outside results.

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