Give Wine Apps the Look and Feel of GNOME or KDE | Linux Today

Give Wine Apps the Look and Feel of GNOME or KDE

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2008

“Wine allows users to run Windows programs natively under Linux
without paying a dime. However, there’s a tiny problem: programs
running in Wine don’t look so great. They don’t even try to fit
into your native GNOME or KDE color scheme or use your preferred
fonts. You could use a Windows theme, but themes make Wine run
extremely slowly. Luckily, with a little configuration editing,
it’s easy to make Wine applications look at lot more like the rest
of the apps on your desktop.

“To integrate Wine applications with a GNOME desktop, first run
the winecfg utility and switch to the Desktop Integration
tab…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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