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WineZGUI

Wine GUI using Zenity.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

At a glance

All of WineZGUI is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

WineZGUI (pronounced Wine-Zee-Goo-Eee) is a wine frontend for playing windows games with wine easily. It is a collection of Bash scripts for Wine Prefix Management and Linux Desktop Integration for easier wine gaming experience using Zenity. IMPORTANT: wine-9.0 from org.winehq.Wine needs "winetricks dxvk vkd3d" or install other runners like wine-9.0 or proton-ge from Runner->Download Runner WineZGUI features: Runs windows games or exe files from file manager. Creates application shortcut for easier access. Separate prefix for every exe file launched with WineZGUI Imports other wine directory from Bottles, Wine, Lutris, Heroic Launcher into WineZGUI and create shortcuts for all found exes. Imported wine directory from lutris or bottles may require: winetricks vkd3d dxvk Backup and Restore prefixes for later use. Runners (different builds of wine like proton) can be used with prefixes. Create Game Bundles for sharing (prefix+game+runner). Open Terminal/Shell supports konsole, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal.

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  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
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