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Wineskin Launcher and Wrappers

Thierry Martinez edited this page May 3, 2021 · 1 revision

Wineskin bundles or wrappers are like bottled Wine prefixes.
They are independant and entirely different from one another.

You can manage a wrapper by double-clicking it, that should launch Wineskin.
An application inside the wrapper, you can find Wineskin.app directly by RMB on
Wrapper.app and select "Show Package Contents".

Install Software

This tool allows you to run a Setup Executable or to move/copy folders inside the wrapper /drive_c.

Set Screen Options

This tool allows you to choose the window system. The Mac driver is the default driver.

Advanced

Configuration

Here you set the default Windows executable to run when you double-click the wrapper like any other macOS app.

You can choose an icon for your wrapper. You must select a file with the .icns extension.

Tools

Here you can access utilities.
winecfg, winetricks, etc. are embedded and do not apply system-wide but to the one bundle only.

Options

Here you can configure the interface between macOS and Wine.
How your folders are accessed by the wrapper, how to exit wine, etc.

You can uncheck "Map User Mac OS X folders in wrapper" to keep all files in the wrapper and make it very portable.
Files like configurations ini saved in %APPDATA% or My Documents, will find their way to
/drive_c/users/Wineskin/Local Settings/ or /drive_c/users/Wineskin/My Documents/