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QAP on Linux (under Wine) - an experiment
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QAP on Linux (under Wine) - an experiment
joeNOR > 2022-02-05 04:44
(This post is complete nonsense, but I'll share my experience so far anyway!
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I'm currently looking at a couple of Linux desktop distros, and one of my requirements is that running Windows only programs should be fairly easy to get going. I don't want to manually install and mess around with Wine, it should work out of the box.
Using QAP to launch the Windows only apps would also be interesting to try (just because I am so used to it).
Conclusion so far
QAP works as a launcher.
It looks like dog shite, and even more so with menu icons enabled, but that is a Wine problem, and not a fault of QAP.
Of course most of the built-in stuff doesn't behave as normal, but favorites to apps and folders in the "Wine sandbox" works.
Regards,
-jN -
RE: QAP on Linux (under Wine) - an experiment
dr Winchell > 2022-02-05 08:19
I have checked out Windows Subsystem for Linux and saw that Hotstrings worked in it.
I haven't tried QAP yet but it very well may work as well. -
RE: QAP on Linux (under Wine) - an experiment
Jean Lalonde > 2022-02-05 08:25
Interesting :-) -
RE: QAP on Linux (under Wine) - an experiment
joeNOR > 2022-02-05 08:26
Yeah, I run WSL on a couple of machines, and use a X server to "pipe" GUI apps from the WSL VM to the host.
But, I tested QAP on a conventional VM running in VMware and using Zorin OS. Btw, Zorin looks like a very slick distro so far, it just works, and it is fast in VMware.
The only distro I've tested in VMware that is faster is MX Linux (in my very subjective opinion)
-jN
(2022-02-05 08:19)dr Winchell Wrote: I have checked out Windows Subsystem for Linux and saw that Hotstrings worked in it.
I haven't tried QAP yet but it very well may work as well.
If you mean triggering hotstrings from your QAP running in Windows in a terminal connected to a WSL, it works like a charm.
I posted something about it in a thread here (I think), snippets also works, but sometimes you have to flip the snippet to macro mode, if I remember correctly.
-jN