I recently lost the contents of my hard drive. I had backups of the one Windows program I need, but not it's installer, so I just reconstructed the entry in Program Files.

The result is that I can run the program from a terminal emulator with the command
but using the same command from the menu or a keyboard shortcut doesn't work. I tried using
but the terminal just starts and stops again. Running that command from another terminal doesn't leave an error message.

Does anyone have any ideas? Is it because the program hasn't been installed in the normal way? If so, can Wine be made aware of it somehow?

What's your distribution? How did you install wine? Version of Wine are you using? Do you have Linux 32 or 64 bit?

I don't use gnome-terminal, you might try the whole path.
For me that would be something like (I tested it)

My distribution is 32-bit CentOS and Wine is 1.2 installed from an rpm. This is not really relevant, because it was all working before I lost the hard drive.

The problem is that QemuLator has not been installed in Wine. The exe file was preserved in my backups, but the installation file is long gone. The current version of the program uses an msi file to install, which Wine 1.2 doesn't like. I need to use Wine 1.2 because it's one of the few versions that will run QemuLator and is close enough to the CentOS version (1.3) to give no dependency problems.

What I really should have asked is how can I make a manual entry for QemuLator into the Wine system, presumably in the registry. My knowledge of Windows stuff is zero.

Since my original post, the command that had worked has stopped working! Now I navigate to QemuLator in Nautilus, right-click, and choose "open with Wine". At least the program still works.

Did you try my suggestion in post 3?
If it can be launched from a file mgr using wine then the application works.
This is not a true path
This is
Make a link or menu item to the path where the .exe is now sitting.

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You need to find your Configure Wine program. If you are using Ubuntu this is under Applications then Wine then Configure Wine. This will open up a box that has some settings for your Wine software.

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Thanks.

@ teckk
Thanks! Using the Windows-style address always worked in the past, but it depended on a registry entry. I'd forgotten that Wine could also use Unix-style addresses, and that solves the problem.