---
name: "q4wine"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "q4wine"
version: "1.3.13-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/q4wine"
---

# q4wine(1)

runs GUI utility for Wine applications and prefixes management.

## NAME

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

## 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.

### General features:

\- Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings.\
 \- 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.

- **-m, --minimize**

  minimize Q4Wine main window on startup

- **-h, --help**

  display help and exit

- **-v, --version**

  output version information and exit

- **-b, --binary**

  open run dialog for wine binary to execute wine binary

## EXIT STATUS

**0** if OK or **-1** if serious troubles

## 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.

## 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.

### Active developers:

- Oleksii S. Malakhov (brezerk) \<**brezerk at gmail.com**\>

  Project maintainer, lead developer, web site designer and developer, project documentation, support, etc. ;)

- Sergey Skrypnic (opium) \<**opium@jabber.com.ua**\>

  Website developer, hosting administration

### Inactive developers:

- Pavel Zinin (pashazz) \<**pzinin at gmail.com**\>

  Winetricks plugin developer

- Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) \<**amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru**\>

  FreeBSD support fixes

## COPYRIGHT

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.

## 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.

## 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/*

## SEE ALSO

[**q4wine-cli**(1)](/q4wine-cli/1.md), [**q4wine-helper**(1)](/q4wine-helper/1.md), [**wine**(1)](/wine/1.md), [**wineserver**(1)](/wineserver/1.md)