q4wine(1)

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version 1.4.1 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 q4wine 💖

okay bestie, so you found the Q4Wine Manual page for q4wine(1) and honestly? iconic. this is the girl who runs your Wine life. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

q4wine — runs GUI utility for Wine applications and prefixes management.

like. it's the pretty face for all your wine chaos. that's the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

q4wine [KEY] ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Q4Wine is a Qt https://www.qt.io/ GUI for W.I.N.E. http://winehq.org/ It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

no cap, it literally holds your hand through prefix management. main character energy fr fr 💅

🎀 General features: 🎀

  • Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings. (yes, aesthetics matter, always 💖)
  • Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
  • Integrated Wine AppDB browser;
  • Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
  • Easy controlling for wine process;
  • autostart icons support;
  • Easy cd-image use;
  • FuseISO\Embedded FuseISO mount profiles;
  • You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
  • Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
  • Winetricks support.
  • and more... ✨

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

A summary of options is included below. (short king list, but every one slays)

  • -m, --minimize — minimize Q4Wine main window on startup. it starts shy, ok? 🙈
  • -h, --help — display help and exit. your lil "what do i do" button 🫶
  • -v, --version — output version information and exit. flex the number, then dip 💅
  • -b, --binary — open run dialog for wine binary to execute wine binary. yes that's what it says, and yes it goes hard 🔥

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

0 if OK or -1 if serious troubles

so like, 0 = we ate. -1 = something is deeply wrong and we're screaming 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/bin/q4wine — The Q4Wine main gui program 👑
  • /usr/bin/q4wine-cli — The Q4Wine command line interface program
  • /usr/bin/q4wine-helper — The Q4Wine runner helper program
  • /usr/lib/q4wine — Directory containing Q4Wine's shared libraries
  • $HOME/.config/q4wine — Directory containing Q4Wine config, icons, database and temporary files. (her little bedroom where she keeps everything 🎀)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

🧚 Thanks to all: 🧚

Q4Wine is available thanks to the work of many to all people, who was involved in development process, testing, bugreporting, packaging or translation creation. For a full listing of the authors, please see the file AUTHORS in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

the way that this took a whole village?? and every single one of them is a real one 🫶

⭐ Created by: ⭐

Oleksii S. Malakhov (brezerk) <brezerk at gmail.com> Project maintainer, lead developer, web site designer and developer, project documentation, support, etc. ;)

not the "etc. ;)" — he said "and more, don't ask" and honestly? respect. the founder of the vibe, periodt 👑

Q4Wine can be distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 license. A copy of the license is in the file LICENSE in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

free software bestie, share the love, always read the LICENSE 💖

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

The most recent public version of Wine can be downloaded from https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/

The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via GIT for information on how to do this, please see https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/#git

Q4Wine, development headquarters, is at https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua This website contains a great deal of information about Q4Wine.

(go touch grass on the website, it's full of lore 🦋)

😭 BUGS 😭

If you find a bug in Q4Wine please report it to <brezerk at gmail.com> or directly to Q4Wine bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/

found a gremlin in the code? do NOT suffer in silence, tell the devs, they're nice i promise 🙈

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

q4wine-cli(1), q4wine-helper(1), wine(1), wineserver(1)

iykyk — go read the whole friend group ✨

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was Q4Wine 1.4 Manual, dated 13 Apr 2025, and it lives at q4wine(1). go manage those prefixes, you absolute legend 🎀💖🌸

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