Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> 
> >In general, I realize that. What seems to be going on on this system
> >though is that a particular app, on invocation, copies a system.reg
> >that lives in /opt/<app>/wine-config/etc (*not* in /etc/wine) to the
> >user's $HOME/.<app>/.wine, and I only operate in
> >$HOME/.<app>/.wine/system.reg. The app is a singleton, i.e. only one
> >instance (per user) can run at a time.
> >
> 
> But the wine configuration is global to that user. If another wine
> application is running at the same time, both this application of
> yours /and/ your changes will break.

I don't think so - judging from the directory structure it is specific
to this app.


> Also, a simpler and less risky solution, why not just run the app
> once, use regedit to modify the keys to whatever it is you want, shut
> down wine, and place the "system.reg" you have instead of
> /opt/<app>/wine-config/etc? At the very least, you can diff the two
> and run "patch" from your script.

Thought of that, of course, but that is more dangerous:
/opt/<app>/wine-config/etc is system-wide and thus works for all
users. I restrict myself to modifying on the fly the copy in the
user's $HOME.

Looks like one more case when what is essentially a single-user system
is forced to work in a multi-user environment... :-(

> Very fragile, that's for sure. You failed to mention whether that was
> the only wine app any user is likely to ever run, for one thing.

No, but once again, I am only mucking around with (what looks like) an
application-specific copy of system.reg.

Thanks again, Shachar,

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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