Linux - Additional Tricks and Tips
- WINE
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Linux - Additional Tricks and Tips

WINE

- Not the drinking kind…

Comports setting Method 1 (regedit)

Go to regedit via
Terminal
```
 wine regedit
```
Navigate to /HKEY_Local_Machine/Software/Wine/Ports and add a new string called com1.
Set the data to the comport (I.E. /dev/ttyUSB0)

Comports setting Method 2 (terminal)

run the following command in terminal

 sudo rm ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 && sudo ln -s /dev/com6 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

Ensure you replace com6 with what ever com port you want to use (com7, ttyUSB0 and etc)

How to associate .exe files with Wine on Ubuntu?

You need to install wine-binfmt.

Also copy wine.desktop to /usr/share/applications or to $HOME/.local/share/applications/. You will find wine.desktop in /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/wine.desktop.

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Sometimes Gnome (desktop interface) has some issue, simply go and restart gnome by doing the following

On the desktop, press Alt + F2. A text box will pop up, type R and press Enter Gnome will then restart and things should work again.