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+ <!-- START SECTION 6: WINE MANAGEMENT GUIS -->
+ <sect1 xml:id="wine-management-guis">
+ <title>WINE Management GUIs</title>
+
+ <para>While the base install of WINE comes with a GUI configuration tool
+ in &lt;application&gt;winecfg&lt;/application&gt;, it's main
+ purpose is just that: strictly configuring an existing WINE
+ prefix. There are, however, more advanced applications that will
+ assist in the initial installation of applications as well as
+ optimizing their WINE environments. The below sections include a
+ selection of the most popular.</para>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="winetricks">
+ <title>winetricks</title>
+
+ <para>&lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; is a
+ cross-platform, general purpose helper program for WINE. It is
+ not developed by the WINE project proper, but rather maintained
+ on
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks">Github</link>
+ by a group of contributors. It contains some automated
+ &quot;recipes&quot; for getting common applications to work on
+ WINE, both by optimizing the settings as well as acquiring some
+ DLL libraries automatically.</para>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="installing-winetricks">
+ <title>Installing winetricks</title>
+
+ <para>To install &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt;
+ on a &amp;os; using binary packages, use the following
+ commands (note
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; requires
+ either the i386-wine or i386-wine-devel package, and is
+ therefore not installed automatically with other
+ dependencies):</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root;<userinput>pkg install i386-wine
+ pkg install winetricks</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To compile it from source, issue the following in the
+ terminal:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root;<userinput>cd /usr/ports/emulators/i386-wine
+ make install
+ cd /usr/ports/emulators/winetricks
+ make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>If a manual installation is required, refer to the
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks">Github</link>
+ account for instructions.</para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <section xml:id="using-winetricks">
+ <title>Using winetricks</title>
+
+ <para>Run &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; with the
+ following command:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt;<userinput>winetricks</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Note you should be in a 32-bit prefix in order to run
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt;. Launching
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; displays a
+ window with a number of choices, as follows:</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-run-1.png" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Selecting either <emphasis>Install an application</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Install a benchmark</emphasis>, or <emphasis>Install
+ a game</emphasis> shows a list with supported options, such as
+ the one below for applications:</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-run-2.png" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Selecting one or more items and clicking
+ <emphasis>OK</emphasis> will start their installation
+ process(es). Initially, some messages that appear to be errors
+ may show up, but they're actually informational alerts as
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; configures
+ the WINE environment to get around known issues for the
+ application:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-app-install-1.png" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Once these are circumvented, the actual installer for the
+ application will be run:</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-app-install-2.png" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Once the installation completes, the new Windows application
+ should be available from the desktop environment's standard
+ menu (shown in the screenshot below for the LXQT desktop
+ environment):
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-menu-1.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>In order to remove the application, run
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; again, and
+ select <emphasis>Run an uninstaller</emphasis>.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-uninstall-1.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>A &amp;os.windows;-style dialog will appear with a list of
+ installed programs and components. Select the application to
+ be removed, then click the <emphasis>Modify/Remove</emphasis>
+ button.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-uninstall-2.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>This will run the applications built-in installer, which
+ should also have the option to uninstall.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/winetricks-uninstall-3.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="homura">
+ <title>Homura</title>
+
+ <para>Homura is an application similar to
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt;, although it
+ was inspired by the
+ <link xlink:href="https://lutris.net/">Lutris</link> gaming
+ system for Linux. But while it is focused on games, there are
+ also non-gaming applications available for install through
+ Homura.</para>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="installing-homura">
+ <title>Installing Homura</title>
+
+ <para>To install Homura's binary package, issue the following
+ command:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root;<userinput>pkg install homura</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Homura is avaialble in the FreeBSD Ports system. However,
+ rather than the <emphasis>emulators</emphasis> section of
+ Ports or binary packages, look for it in the
+ <emphasis>games</emphasis> section.
+ </para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root;<userinput>cd /usr/ports/games/homura
+ make install</userinput></screen>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="using-homura">
+ <title>Using Homura</title>
+
+ <para>Homura's usage is quite similar to that of
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt;. When using
+ it for the first time, launch it from the command line (or a
+ desktop environment runner applet) with:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt;<userinput>Homura</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This should result in a friendly welcome message. Click
+ <emphasis>OK</emphasis> to continue.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-launch-1.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The program will also offer to place a link in the application
+ menu of compatible environments:</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-run-2.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Depending on the setup of the &amp;os; machine, Homura may
+ display a message urging the install of native graphics
+ drivers.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-run-3.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The application's window should then appear, which amounts to
+ a &quot;main menu&quot; with all its options. Many of the
+ items are the same as
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt;, although
+ Homura offers some additional, helpful options such as opening
+ its data folder (<emphasis>Open Homura Folder</emphasis>) or
+ running a specified program (<emphasis>Run a executable in
+ prefix</emphasis>).</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-1.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To select one of Homura's supported applications to install,
+ select <emphasis>Installation</emphasis>, and click
+ <emphasis>OK</emphasis>. This will display a list of
+ applications Homura can install automatically. Select one, and
+ click <emphasis>OK</emphasis> to start the process.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-2.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>As a first step Homura will download the selected program. A
+ notification may appear in supported desktop environments.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-3.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The program will also create a new prefix for the application.
+ A standard WINE dialog with this message will display.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-4.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Next, Homura will install any prerequisites for the selected
+ program. This may involve downloading and extracting a fair
+ number of files, the details of which will show in dialogs.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-5.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Downloaded packages are automatically opened and run as
+ required.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-6.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The installation may end with a simple desktop notification or
+ message in the terminal, depending on how Homura was launched.
+ But in either case Homura should return to the main screen. To
+ confirm the installation was successful, select
+ <emphasis>Launcher</emphasis>, and click
+ <emphasis>OK</emphasis>.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-7.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>This will display a list of installed applications.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-install-8.png.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To run the new program, select it from the list, and click
+ <emphasis>OK</emphasis>. To uninstall the application, select
+ <emphasis>Uninstallation</emphasis> from the main screen,
+ which will display a similar list. Select the program to be
+ removed, and click <emphasis>OK</emphasis>.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <inlinemediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="./includes/homura-uninstall-1.jpg" />
+ </imageobject>
+ </inlinemediaobject>
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="running-multiple-management-guis">
+ <title>Running Multiple Management GUIs</title>
+
+ <para>It's worth noting that the above solutions are not mutually
+ exclusive. It's perfectly acceptable, even advantageous, to have
+ both installed at the same time, as they support a different set
+ of programs.</para>
+
+ <para>However, it's wise to ensure that they don't access any of the
+ same WINE prefixes. Each of these solutions applies workarounds
+ and makes changes to the registries based on known workarounds
+ to existing WINE issues in order to make a given application run
+ smoothly. Allowing both
+ &lt;application&gt;winetricks&lt;/application&gt; and Homura to
+ access the same prefix could lead to some of these being
+ overwritten, with the result being some or all applications do
+ not work as expected.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+

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