For beginners who want to install (or already have) Windows apps / games through wine, here’s a new graphical app to make things stupid simple!

It’s WineCharm, a free open-source Python written application that uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for a modern UI well integrated with GNOME Desktop.

Wine is a popular free open-source software for running Windows apps or games in Linux and macOS. It has quite a few front-end, such as Bottles, Lutris, and PlayOnLinux.

WineCharm is a new one designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux through Wine.

It supports installing/running Windows apps through .exe or .msi files, and importing apps through wine folders.

It offers per app setting options to choose which wine to use, Add/Remove app shortcut, view log, backup, and configure environment variables.

While, advanced users can configure more by using app specific Wine options, editing scripts, and open app folder either in terminal or file-manager for more operations.

per wine app settings page

Besides per app options, it also has global settings page, allowing to download/install multiple Wine versions (e.g., wine-proton for gaming, wine-wow64 for 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Linux, and wine stable/devel), set default Wine, import/export, and delete wine runners.

As well, it supports creating and managing templates, setting Wine arch (64-bit or 32-bit), and single prefix mode to save space.

How to Install WineCharm

The app is available to install as Flatpak package in most Linux to run in sandbox environment.

Linux Mint and Fedora Workstation (with 3rd party repository enabled) may search & install it directly from either Software Manager and GNOME Software.

While, Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux may run the commands below one by one to install:

• First, open terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T in Ubuntu) and run command to install Flatpak daemon:

  sudo apt install flatpak

  For other Linux, follow the official setup guide to enable Flatpak support.

  

• Then, run the command below to install the Flatpak package:

  flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.fastrizwaan.WineCharm.flatpakref

  

Finally, search for and launch the app from either GNOME Overview or the start menu depends on your desktop. If app icon is not visible, try to log out and back in.

And, to check updates for the app package, use command:

flatpak update io.github.fastrizwaan.WineCharm

Uninstall:

To uninstall WineCharm flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.fastrizwaan.WineCharm

NOTE: If you want to keep the apps installed via WineCharm, skip --delete-data option in last command.

And, run the flatpak uninstall --unused command to remove useless run-time libraries.