m_pav wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:18 pm
While I'm not much of a wine fan, is there any reason why you can't just delete the /home/<yourlogin>/.wine folder and re-run wine fusing wine notepad from the terminal to create and repopulate the new winedir?
I am not really worried about wine, I can delete the wine machine and create a new one, I only have 3 applications that I need on wine.
It is not a big deal, just a waste of time
If the worse comes to the worse, I have just made a snapshot of my system last weak, I can always re-install everything
m_pav wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:18 pm
Some Windows PDF print solutions can be run as a service with full functionality to client machines accessing them remotely. Remember how I suggested Windows in a VM with a shared PDF Printer earlier in this thread?
Wine is not really a complete windows machine and is restricted in many ways, I don't know if I can run a service on it and make it available to the linux host
Actually wine does not have a print system, and it depends on the linux host for printing
The print spooler service does not start by default, and during one of my installation testings I had to start it from the Cl, and I don't think that it persists, I'll probably have to edit the registry to start it and keep it running.
Meanwhile, I'll create a new wine prefix for testing the pdf printers, and if it is messed up, I'll just delete it, but even if I can get it to work, this is not of much use to the wider linux community.
As you rightly pointed out, what is needed is a good system wide print solution that can be installed in any desktop.
The idea to port one or more windows printers to snap or appimage is theoretically doable, but to successfully run a windows service from snap or appimage ???
The other and more efficient way is to take one of the many open source printers and compile it for linux. You will need a good programmer or programmers to do that, and sadly I am not
Thanks again for your support
