Open the downloaded DMG file. Drag and drop both Wine and WineBottler applications to your Applications folder to install them, just like you would any other Mac application. You can then launch WineBottler from your Applications folder. WineBottler lists a number of different programs you can easily install.
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What are startup items?
Startup items, or login items, are services and applications that launch every time you start your Mac. These are applications that sneak into startup items without notice, never asking if you need or want them there. This way you may end up with a dozen apps launching as soon as you turn on your Mac, weighing heavily on its processor and memory capacities and slowing it down. Such items can increase your Mac’s startup time and decrease its performance.
Plus, sometimes when you remove an application or a service, it leaves a login item with a broken link. These broken login items are completely useless, cause unwanted messages, and waste your Mac's resources (because they look for non-existent applications). Whether you're running macOS Catalina or El Capitan, or earlier — it's all the same, so just read on.
So, let's go over how to take control of login items, and how to get rid of unwanted, broken or hidden startup items.
How to disable startup programs?
Do you want to stop programs from running at startup? There’s an easy way to remove programs from startup and get your Mac to load faster on launch. The fastest way to turn off startup items on Mac is an app like CleanMyMac X.
How to change startup programs manually?
Disabling Mac startup programs is possible manually. Therefore, if you have some time and would like to do it yourself, follow the steps below.
Your login items are listed in settings. One of the easiest ways to control startup items is inside System Preferences > Users & Groups.
How to fix broken startup items?
Broken Mac startup files are left there because some part of apps are left on your Mac long after you’ve moved the app to the Trash. To get rid of these parts and to fix your startup, you’re going to need CleanMyMac again. First, you need to check if they’re among startup items and disable them if so. You can do it following the instructions above. Then you need to remove app leftovers. CleanMyMac works fine on macOS High Sierra and earlier OS.
You can also find and remove broken login items with the help of System Junk module:
Finally, you need to clean your macOS startup items through launch services:
Once you do it, all broken app data on your Mac will be fixed.
Remove daemons and agents from startup process
If speaking of files, first go to the system folder /Library/StartUpItems. Here you’ll find all the startup files that are being launched with the system. You can delete the login item you think is necessary if you’re totally sure what you are doing.
Also, the /Library/LaunchDaemons folder contains a bunch of preference files that define how the application that is being launched along with the system should work. You might want to delete some of these files as well if you know you don’t need them and removing them is safe.
The /Library/LaunchAgents contains preference files responsible for the apps that launch during the login process (not the startup).
The above-mentioned folders contain app-related files. However, you can also check system folders to review whether you need some of the system applications to be running on startup:
But, if you’re looking for simple ways to remove login items, we suggest using a professional Mac utility. Download CleanMyMac X for free and make unwanted and broken login items a thing of the past. Partition find and mount windows 10.
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See also the general Wine FAQ
1 What is the difference between Wine and Darwine?
Darwine was the original effort to port Wine to Macs Running macOS and consisted of 2 major efforts.
Wine for macOS x86 has now merged into main Wine project, here at WineHQ. Darwine is no longer actively developed.
2 What does Wine on macOS support? (DirectX, DirectSound, Direct3D..)
3 How do I change settings?
4 Where are Wine's settings stored?
In your home folder (/Users/<username>/ resp. ~/) in the hidden folder .wine. You can get into (even hidden) folders in the Finder by pressing Shift+Command+G and entering the path, for example ~/.wine.
You can make the hidden folder 'visible' by creating a symbolic link: ln -s ~/.wine wine in Terminal.app.
Wine Application Mac5 How can I switch the locale?
This Wiki and other Wine documentation mention setting the environment variable LANG. This works for UNIX but deliberately does not work with Wine on MacOS for reasons enumerated in this thread. Instead, set the variable LC_MESSAGES, e.g. use LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine japanese.exe or LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.SJIS or LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
6 Will there be a PowerPC version (or will there be a way to run Wine on a PowerPC processor)?Wine Mac Download
Darwine was the effort to port Wine to PowerPC processors. Darwine is NO LONGER ACTIVELY DEVELOPED.
7 Where can I get a working Wine for Intel Macs?
8 All 16 bit applications crash in winevdm.
This is radar://5935237 bug in Apple's linker, which affects XCode older than 3.2.x. It is reflected in Wine Bug #14920. 32bit apps are not affected. affects
Workarounds:
9 How do I right-click in Wine on macOS?
Control-click, as you're probably used to, won't work in wine (so far?). Workaround: Enable secondary click by tapping the trackpad with two fingers. Therefor go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad and enable 'Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click'. You can then do the right clicks by tapping the trackpad with two fingers.Update: if you are running a current version of Xquartz, you can go into the X11.app preferences when it's running and select what you want to be modifier keys for right and middle clicks.
10 How come my keyboard shortcuts don't work like normal
Wine by default maps the keys differently than native macOS applications.It's possible to change some of the keyboard mappings depending on the version of wine being used.
11 How to launch wine from terminal instead of the wine application?
To do this we need to add the wine application to the PATH variable
To do that we do the following
Then copy in the following Windows desktop for mac free download.
Comment out Wine Stable uncomment out the one you want to be added for use within terminal.To save press Ctrl+X then press Enter to save the file.Now any new terminal session will have wine from available the chosen wine application for the current user.
12 How to create shortcut, launcher, or .app to start a given .exe?12.1 Instructions on making .app file launcher
This is for real Wine, installed to /usr/local. It can be modified to work with Macports Wine.
It might start up a bit slow with no visual indicators.. sometimes, be patient
12.2 Instructions on making custom launcher what invokes Terminal
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After making all customizations, save the launcher file as regular .txt file.Next, in the Finder, click on saved launcer file, then press Command+I (Get Info) and replace the .txt with .command which is an extension that Mac OS uses for shell (and perl, Python, tcl) scripts.Alternatively, you can remove file extension altogether.
Next, you need to give launcher file executive permissions. Open the Terminal and execute chmod +x path/to/my/something, where path/to/my/something is the path to the launcher file.
Optional: Changing the icon of the launcher file
On the macOS, it is possible to change the icon of any file to anything you desire.
NOTE: In some cases, your custom icon will not display if launcher file has extension. Refer to previous steps on how to rename the launcher.
Look into the hidden `~/.local/share/icons/` directory, where Wine keeps the icons created by application installers (.xpm and .png files); they would display on a Linux desktop.
In some cases, you will need to manually extract the icon from the .exe file. This can be done using tools like Resource Hacker. This tutorial, however, will not cover the process of doing it. It is assumed, that you have the application icon in the `.ico` or `.png` format.
Now that you have your icon file ready, open it with the Preview. In case of .ico it might have multiple frames/images inside, select appropriate one. Press Command+C (Edit>Copy). Next, in the Finder, click on the launcher file, then press Command+I (Get Info). In the top left corner of the launcher info, there will be a small image showing current icon, click on it to highlight it. Press Command+V to paste your icon.If everything goes well, the icon of your launcher will change.
13 Why is it building font metrics? This may take some time..
Actually, there are two bugs involved:
Start wine (in a Terminal) as follows:
or
You may patch the main wine launcher yourself and forget about this variable. Save this patch file, then invoke patch -p1 < mypatch.txt in a Terminal, while at the top of Wine's source directory, see macOS/Building.
Both MacPorts and Fink use a wrapper to the wine launcher which sets exactly this variable.
14 If I have a problem with Darwine on macOS, where should I report the bug?
Since
- report all bugs to Darwine developers.
15 How do I switch between the Mac/X11 drivers?
As of 1.5.28, the Mac driver is the default driver. If on an older release, you can force using the Mac driver by either:
Or by editing the registry key 'graphics' under HKCUSoftwareWineDrivers. It should specify the load order, e.g., 'mac,x11'
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