Ubuntu: Up and Running

Configuring Wine

You can configure Wine to your preferences by selecting Applications → Wine → Configure Wine. This will open up the window shown in Figure 16-5, which is actually a Windows application itself running under Wine.

Figure 16-5. The Wine configuration window

The utility displays seven tabs offering many options, including adding and removing applications, adding Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) to override Wine libraries, handling DirectX and Direct3D, managing themes, mapping disc drives, configuring audio, and more.

Some of these functions, such as adding DLLs, require a solid knowledge of how Windows works, so you shouldn’t use them unless you know why you are doing so.