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Change wine username?
I have a game (GRIP on GOG) that uses the windows user's username as the player's name. This means that my name is "steamuser". How can i change my username in the wine environment?
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harsh-harlequin•4mo ago
wine should use your current user's user name as the prefix username, proton uses
steamuser, I don't think it can be changedambitious-aqua•4mo ago
Proton + UMU makes a symlink from your linux username to
steamuser as wellharsh-harlequin•4mo ago
someone proposed having a PROTON_USER env variable to be able to customize this a few weeks ago https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/605#issuecomment-2648633512 but I don't think it's something that can be done currently
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Proton prefixes use "steamuser" as the system username · Issue #605...
There are games like Doki Doki Literature Club that read the system username and use it in interesting ways inside the game. Proton prefixes always use "steamuser" instead of the user'...