Why My .Desktop File Cant Open Wine App?

tomislav91 · 07-12-2017, 12:49 AM

Hello guys, i am having an issue. I want to create launcher in my panel to open .exe file with wine.

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=TEst
Exec=gnome-terminal -e "wine /home/test123/myapp.exe"
Terminal=false

but what happened is that just my terminal blinks and thats all. When try to put command in terminal

Code:

wine /home/test123/myapp.exe

then it is opening application. Where is a problem?
I tried to put

Code:

wine /home/test123/myapp.exe > wine.error.log

but file after opening program is empty, no errors.

hazel · 07-12-2017, 01:59 AM

Since it works from the command line, the problem must lie in your desktop file. I see that you want the app to run in a gnome terminal, yet you have specified Terminal=false. Try putting Terminal=true and see if that works better.

tomislav91 · 07-12-2017, 02:06 AM

same problem, even with terminal=true.

timl · 07-12-2017, 02:12 AM

Maybe you need the full path to wine. I don't have this installed but (using thunderbird as an example)

Quote:

[tim@mink ~]$ which thunderbird
/usr/bin/thunderbird

I am guessing that I would need to type the full path to run t'bird from a script. So you may need something like

Quote:

/usr/bin/wine

tomislav91 · 07-12-2017, 02:20 AM

again the same problem...

tomislav91 · 07-12-2017, 03:04 AM

i somehow manage to succeed, but terminal is allways staying in background. Can I somehow hide it or move it somewhere around? Users cant see terminal...