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Questions tagged [playonlinux]

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How to run a program installed with playonlinux from linux commandline

How can I run a program which I have installed via playonlinux directly from a linux commandline or a bash-script?
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How to enable GTK theming (wine-staging) in Playonlinux?

As indicated in this answer, Wine-staging now has an option for GTK theming, and it works as indicated there. Adding a Wine-staging version to a virtual drive in Playonlinux , the "Staging" tab appears in Wine configuration for that drive, but…
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Ubuntu 15.04 PlayOnLinux Evernote can't edit notes

Just installed Ubuntu 15.04 (yes, I know that I'm a slowpoke). On Ubuntu 14.10 I was using Evernote via POL and everything was OK. Now I have a weird problem. Everything is synced. I can see a list of my notes but... I can't edit any. I only see the…
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How to make Skype conference calls and screen sharing in Linux

Now that Skype got discontinued for Linux and only the 5 beta version is avalable, Linux users have a problem, which is how to communicate with Mac and Windows users. There have been lately a lot of questions regarding the installation of Skype and…
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How to install Captvty in Playonlinux

(I post this in order to provide an answer.) I have posted under this askubuntu question an answer on how to use Captvty with Wine, and it is a rather complex procedure. I wander if Playonlinux can make things easier.
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Cannot install wine and playonlinux

I am in elementary OS Freya. sudo apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible…
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How do I make Playonlinux convince MS Office I'm running win 10 or higher?

Okay, so I recently installed linux Mint and I'm trying to install Microsoft Office 2016. I try the solution witn Play on Linux. First I ran into some problems (PoL couldn't finish the download) but I fixed that by putting the .exe-file into the PoL…
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The program name.exe has encountered a serious problem

I installed Wine on newly installed Linux Mint 19 Bionic edition, and also PlayOnLinux. When I try to open a .msi type file with Wine Windows program loader it says: "Program error: The program warframe.exe has encountered a serious problem and…
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How can I force PlayonLinux to use Wine 4?

PlayOnLinux hasn't been updated since 2015. As such their list of Wine versions are outdated. The highest version available inside the app is 3.2. The latest wine version available at the time of posting this is 4. How can I force PlayOnLinux to…
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POL-WINE crashes running MotoGp2015 on Linux Mint 64bit - ISO MotoGP2015

What I wanted to do: Play MotoGP2015... What I tried to do: I installed the game by using an ISO FIle and using PlayOnLinux for the .exe. The PleyOnLinus crash problem: I double click on the launch icon but POL crashes without providing any valuable…
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Wine 1.5.5 SAI crashes in PlayOnLinux

Ubuntu 18.04, 32-bit architecture I was trying to install an app (Paint Tool Sai) through PlayOnLinux, but Wine crashes each time I try to run it. Here's what the debugger writes: Running wine-1.5.5-SAI sai.exe (Working directory :…
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Open PDF files in Firefox or Chrome with Acrobat Reader DC via playonlinux

I'm a professional typesetter and I really need to use Acrobat Reader DC on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I installed it via playonlinux. I call it by command line with: playonlinux --run Adobe\ Acrobat\ Reader\ DC mypdffile.pdf My question is: can I…
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Can't launch apps without internet connection - PlayOnLinux

I have a bunch of Windows programs on my Gallium OS installation (an Xubuntu-based linux distribution designed for Chromebooks) running on PlayOnLinux. When I have an internet connection the programs launch like normal. When I don't have internet…
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OpenGL and Nvidia Problem with Manjaro after trying to configure settings

I didn't have any problem with my Graphics driver or OpenGL before, and I was able to play 3D games using POL. But when i was just looking around in my system I came up with nvidia-settings so when I started it up it gave me a message saying You do…
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wine - Can I get SWTOR to use backslash and AltGr in keybinds?

I usually play SWTOR on Windows (10), but being able to play on linux would be so much better for too many reasons to list (and beyond the scope of this question). So I've set it up via playonlinux (using wine version 1.8-staging as recommended by a…
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