[mdlug] Wine run as root?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Ingles, Raymond

>  What's weird is that the "Alice" game doesn't require root to run.
> I did a bit more Googling and it seems that if Wine happens to get
> run by root, it can mess up permissions for files in ~/.wine 
> directory, and running something like "chown -Rv $USER $HOME/.wine"
> should fix the issue. I'll give it a shot when I get home.

 Well, it was a permissions issue, but not with Wine's files. I'd copied
the game files over from my Windows partition and they were still marked
read-only. Once I'd fixed that everything ran fine.

 It still has an issue I've seen before, where exiting the game leaves the
screen at a lower resolution than I'd had when I started the game. Fortunately
I can just set up 'xrandr' to restore my preferred resolution.

 I'm going to have to experiment with some of the other games I have. Looks
like Wine has come a long way...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                       (313) 227-2317

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