Eckhard M. Jäger

Tweaking Wine

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:08:03 AM

color, wine, registry, theme, xp, visual styles, ubuntu, windows

I spend some time too tweak Wine a little bit more for a better look of Windows apps on my Ubuntu Linux. I created a color theme and a registry file for import (wine regedit ubuntu_colors.reg) into the wine registry editor.
I know Wine can load Windows styles and there are nice ones like Clearlooks and Human, but my experiences are that these themes let Wine runing slow.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="239 235 230"
"ActiveTitle"="200 130 60"
"AppWorkSpace"="102 51 51"
"Background"="0 128 128"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="180 180 180"
"ButtonDkShadow"="115 106 96"
"ButtonFace"="239 235 230"
"ButtonHilight"="239 235 230"
"ButtonLight"="248 246 244"
"ButtonShadow"="203 193 183"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="16 132 208"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="181 181 181"
"GrayText"="203 193 183"
"Hilight"="248 198 119"
"HilightText"="0 0 0"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 255"
"InactiveBorder"="239 235 230"
"InactiveTitle"="239 235 230"
"InactiveTitleText"="60 60 60"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="239 235 230"
"MenuBar"="239 235 230"
"MenuHilight"="0 0 0"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="239 235 230"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"

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Comments

Anonymous # Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:29:13 PM

Anonymous writes: hello

Anonymous # Monday, January 22, 2007 11:16:15 PM

didli writes: Nice idea ! I will give it a try. Thanks.

Anonymous # Monday, January 29, 2007 12:48:30 PM

Vinicius Depizzol writes: Thank you for the comment! I updated the blog linking to this post. ;)

Anonymous # Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:45:09 PM

Boni writes: Thanks, that's great!

Anonymous # Thursday, March 1, 2007 5:49:57 AM

FurthuR writes: Thanks a bunch! clearlooks was nice but incredibly sluggish and I can tweak all the colors to my liking!

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Thursday, March 1, 2007 9:37:00 PM

Jep, same experience i made. I made such a color theme for QT apps too so i have overall a similiar look of all apps an GNOME.

Anonymous # Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:46:53 AM

Anonymous writes: thanks a lot :D

Anonymous # Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:56:57 AM

Luxther Defaul writes: Please. How to install the register? Thank you!

Anonymous # Friday, August 31, 2007 1:40:19 AM

Luxther Defaul writes: Thanks!

Anonymous # Saturday, October 27, 2007 1:44:11 AM

Robert writes: Nice work! I've been running versions of Windows portable apps (http://portableapps.com) from my iPod, and wanted to keep using them when I came back to Linux. That means I can keep settings and configs the same no matter which platform I'm on, like at work where it's windows only, and we can't install anything. Wine works, and I love it, but it is truly ugly. I have seen the slowness you referred to while running Windows themes. Your reg import is a very good compromise. Thanks For Sharing This. :) Robert http://robert.arlesnet.com

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:32:21 AM

Hi Robert,
it's inspiring to share

Anonymous # Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:12:02 PM

Jafar writes: Love the Ubuntu colours reg file. So much better than the windows 95 style boringness. Thanks a lot :)

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:50:13 PM

@Jafar

that's why i did it - it looks much cooler.
Thanx.

Anonymous # Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:26:17 AM

Anonymous writes: I think this one blends better into the gutsy-human theme, but i know it's subjective REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="239 235 230" "ActiveTitle"="203 133 61" "AppWorkSpace"="142 146 156" "Background"="139 146 163" "ButtonAlternateFace"="180 180 180" "ButtonDkShadow"="115 106 96" "ButtonFace"="239 235 230" "ButtonHilight"="239 235 230" "ButtonLight"="248 246 244" "ButtonShadow"="203 193 183" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="228 166 101" "GradientInactiveTitle"="238 233 229" "GrayText"="203 193 183" "Hilight"="248 198 119" "HilightText"="0 0 0" "HotTrackingColor"="0 0 255" "InactiveBorder"="239 235 230" "InactiveTitle"="244 241 238" "InactiveTitleText"="60 60 60" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="239 235 231" "MenuHilight"="0 0 0" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="203 193 183" "TitleText"="255 255 255" "Window"="255 255 255" "WindowFrame"="0 0 0" "WindowText"="0 0 0"

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:58:48 PM

Thanx for sharing it!

Anonymous # Monday, September 1, 2008 1:25:57 PM

Anonymous writes: nice :)