create Wine launcher

bigalexe · 04-28-2006, 02:40 PM

I have Ubuntu 5.10 and love GUI instead of Terminal

how do you create a launcher for an application that must be run under Wine. here's what i've done

i right click on the desktop and click "create launcher" it then asks for for the name and icon ect. and the last thing to enter is the command. Normally i would direct this to the program file i want to run so i tried this.

Code:

/home/Desktop/Desktop For Files/LDRAW/MLCAD.exe

doesnt work so i tried appending the wine invocation from terminal on the front

Code:

wine ~/home/Desktop/Desktop For Files/LDRAW/MLCAD.exe

still doesnt work
yes the program will launch from the terminal

burninGpi · 04-28-2006, 04:59 PM

You either need to reference the exact location of wine (i.e. /usr/bin/wine) or use env
For the former,

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigalexe

Code:

wine ~/home/Desktop/Desktop For Files/LDRAW/MLCAD.exe

replace wine with the output of

Code:

which wine

For the latter, change the launcher command with

Code:

/usr/bin/env wine /home/Desktop/Desktop For Files/LDRAW/MLCAD.exe

I hope this helps

bigalexe · 04-29-2006, 05:29 PM

tried and failed, i guess ill resign to launching from terminal