You may have already installed those from another source (e.g.

Optional: winetricks corefonts will install Windows default fonts (e.g.

Now that Wine is installed, you need to add the Windows components you will need to install and run Scrivener. The Wine installer in the Ubuntu repository has a slight defect: it doesn’t create an important symbolic link, meaning you’ll have to create yourself: sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/sktop /usr/share/applications/ If those are available in your distribution’s repos (they are for Ubuntu), installing them can be achieved with this command: sudo apt install wine winetricks winbind If you have a more advanced knowledge, you may wish to use prefixes. Note: This tutorial was written for people who don’t know what Wine is and are probably installing it only to run Scrivener. To make Scrivener run on Linux, we’ll use Wine, a compatibilty layer for running Windows applications on POSIX systems (understand: “Linux OSs”). Getting Scrivener 3 to work on Linux # Installing wine # My own solution is to correct all mistakes the next time I open the project on my Windows Scrivener. The next time you try a combo with a dead key, though (say, ^+ a or even '+ e), you keep getting ô, just as if Scrivener kept stuck on the first combo it registered. In this Wine-installed Scrivener, though, you don’t always get what you expect.Īctually, the first time you use it (let’s say you go for ^+ o), you do get ô. The idea is that you first type ^, then e and you get ê.

If you don’t type accents, you may not use them much, but in French, circumflex accent is quite common and relies on a dead key modifier. That’s mainly a cosmetic issue, though, as the element is correctly moved and you can press Esc to bust that ghost. Sticky Drag in Drag and Drop #įirst, there’s a slight problem with drag and drop: whenever you drop something, the element remains in a transparent overlay, just as if you were still dragging it. Those are things you can probably live with, but it may good to know of those beforehand, to avoid any surprise.

Though Scrivener works on Linux, everything’s not perfect and some glitches remain. update: I added some forewarning about the known issues, so that you can decide if they’re a blocker before you go with the installation.

It seems OK on my setup, please keep me posted if you see ways to make this better.

update: This page was updated to work with Scrivener 3.0.1 for Windows. My only problem was: my mobility OS is Linux, which Scrivener doesn’t provide support for.īut that’s no longer a problem as Thomas Pletcher proved that the latest betas of Scrivener 3 work with Wine. I used Scrivener in the past and know it’s a solution I love to use.

An error pops up when running the installerĪs I’m preparing for my first attempt at NaNoWriMo, I know I must have my writing software ready.

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