Wine Docker Image

Introduction

Basic Docker image for Wine.

Usages

Build Docker Image

To build the Docker image, please run the following command.

$ docker build -f wine.Dockerfile --tag=wine:20.04 .

Run Docker Container

To run the Docker container, please run the following command with additional Docker arguments if necessary.

$ xhost +
$ docker run \
    -it \
    --rm \
    --gpus all \
    --device /dev/snd \
    --device=/dev/dri \
    -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
    -v $(pwd):/mnt \
    wine:20.04
$ xhost -

Configure Wine

For Win32 applications, we create a directory ~/.wine32 to store the configurations.

$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

For Win64 applications, we create a directory ~/.wine64 to store the configurations.

$ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

Run Application

For Win32 applications, we specify the Win32 configuration directory as WINEPREFIX before wine.

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine app.exe

For Win32 applications, we specify the Win64 configuration directory as WINEPREFIX before wine.

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine app.exe

Run Display Scaling

For some old applications, the display usually is very small. We could scale the display using a scaling script.

For example, to scale the display of app.exe by 1.5x, we could run the following command.

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 run_scaled --scale=1.5 wine app.exe

Example

We will use running Windows WeChat as an example.

Download WeChat

$ wget https://dldir1.qq.com/weixin/Windows/WeChatSetup.exe

Run Docker Container

$ xhost +
$ docker run \
    -it \
    --gpus all \
    --device /dev/snd \
    --device=/dev/dri \
    -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
    -e XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx \
    -e QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
    -e GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx \
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
    -v $(pwd):/mnt \
    wine:20.04

Notice --rm has been removed and -e XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx, -e QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx, -e GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx has been added to enable the fcitx input from the host computer.

Configure Wine

$ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

Make sure virtual desktop is used in winecfg. In my case, I used resolution 2560 x 1440 for the virtual desktop.

Install WeChat

$ cd /mnt
$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine WeChatSetup.exe

Run WeChat

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine ~/.wine64/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Tencent/WeChat/WeChat.exe