[K12OSN] OT- wine and user accounts

[Martin Woolley]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 20:03, rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> We are running WINE on our K12LTSP server so that we can serve up some
> applications that only run on Windows.  When I install an application,
> it only shows up for the user account where the installation took
> place.  Is there a way to install an application under WINE that will
> show up for all users?

We achieve this by cheating.  On NFS we have a directory student_wine.  Each 
user has a symbolic link .wine in their home dir which points to the 
student_wine dir.  Any apps show up for any user, eg to run one application, 
the KDE menu item contains 
Exec=wine /home/MAUD/ooo/student_wine/drive_c/Program\\ 
Files/Focus-ES/KS3Physics/KS3P.exe

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Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna

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