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What is Wine-Compholio?

The Wine "Compholio" Edition is a special patched version of Wine that includes both patches written by our team directly and specific patches by third party developers that we consider good enough for inclusion. This can be seen as a testing version in preparation for patches to be submitted to upstream Wine - don't be surprised if you encounter additional bugs, which are not present in regular wine, and always report such issues to us (via github), so we can improve our fixes even further. Thanks!

Using Wine-Compholio

Since we don't want to duplicate a lot of information here, we recommend to take a look at the official Wine FAQ for general information about how to use Wine. The following part will mainly concentrate on the differences between wine and Wine-Compholio.

Running Wine-Compholio

Using multiple Wine versions: Unless you specify a special WINEPREFIX environment variable, Wine-Compholio will use the same wineprefix ~/.wine (in your home directory) like regular wine. This allows you to use your already installed programs directly, without much effort or reinstalling them. Often you have both regular wine and Wine-Compholio installed at the same time, which is absolutely no problem - by typing in either wine (=regular wine) or /opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine you can decide, which wine version you want to run. You can switch between versions as often as you like - just make sure that all Windows programs have terminated before starting them with a different version.

To run Wine-Compholio always type /opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine, for example:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/<your path>/
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine game.exe

You also have to add /opt/wine-compholio/bin/ when running other wine related programs, here are some additional example:

# Initialize the wine prefix
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wineboot

# Open the wine configuration
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/winecfg

# Run winepath to convert paths
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/winepath --unix 'c:\Windows'

# Kill the running wineserver instance
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wineserver -k

...

If you're an experienced user, and always want to use Wine-Compholio, you can also add /opt/wine-compholio/bin to your bash profile. We will not go into detail here, because such a setup has the big disadvantage, that it hides which version you're using - which is very important for getting support or reporting bugs.