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Re: failure of windows program with wine in trixie



On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 01:36:27PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote on 11/11/25 10:32 PM:

[...]

> > Any chance that the upgrade to Trixie "lost" some that environment for
> > you? [...]

> I don't think the upgrade would have changed anything in my personal
> hierarchy, and WINE (as far as I know) stores all its data in the user's
> ~/.wine hierarchy.

No, but changing from X to Wayland might change how things in your home
are "seen".

> > Do you have access to your old setup?
> 
> Yes, I have a ZFS snapshot rooted in my home directory. It seems that lots
> of values within that hierarchy get changed whenever one executes WINE
> (mostly just time stamps, most-recent files list, and that sort of thing); a
> quick comparison of the old ~/.wine hierarchy with the current,
> post-upgrade, ~/.wine hierarchy doesn't show any changes that look like
> they're important.

It's a thin clue, but easy to check, so...

I'd have a look at your home for a file named ~/.Xsession, ~/.xsession or
~/.xsessionrc, and see whether they set Wine-related environment. Maybe
a move to Wayland ignores these files, dunno.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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