Add multiple Windows prefix locations to WineGUI

[RichardJECooke]

I have lots of different Windows folders in different places - .wine, .snap, flathub somewhere, Bottles, Steam.

How do I get WineGUI to see them all please?

[melroy89]

The default wine directory: ~/.wine should already be visible in WineGUI by default.

Ideally try to create/place/move others as much as possible to folder: <home_folder>/.local/share/winegui/prefixes directory (notice that .local is hidden). This is the default directory.

If you didn't create any Windows machines in WineGUI, you can also consider changing the machine folder location at: File->Preferences and select another folder location were most of your Windows Bottles/Machines are located.

Finally, if you know how to work on command line, you can also use the ln -s command to create so called symbolic link under Linux. For example: ln -s /home/user/your-other-machine_folder /home/user/.local/share/winegui/prefixes/your-other-machine

In this last example a symbolic link will be created between the existing machine and the WineGUI prefixes location, without the need of moving your Windows Machine/Bottle.

[RichardJECooke]

Thanks. But you can't move cdrives out of their app. Bottles/snap/flatpak all place them in very specific folders. Hopefully one day there'll be a settings page in winegui where you can add existing. cdrives

[melroy89]

Thanks. But you can't move cdrives out of their app. Bottles/snap/flatpak all place them in very specific folders. Hopefully one day there'll be a settings page in winegui where you can add existing. cdrives

I understand, for now try to create a symbolic link via ln -s. I marked this issue has an enhancement now as well.

[melroy89]

Upstream ticket created: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui/-/issues/42