Isn't it freecell.exe that's in /home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell, not wine? It would make more sense as /usr/local/bin/wine /home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/freecell.exe - Walter On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Holly Bostick wrote: > John Wildberger wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:48 am, Milan Knizek wrote: > > > >>John Wildberger wrote: > >>| I have the program 'freecell' in the directory: > >>| > >>| [john]: 09:28 AM [~/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell] > >>| $ wine freecell will start the program. > >>| What do I have to do to create an Icon on the desktop that will start the > >>| program? > >> > >>consult your window manager (KDE, Gnome, ...) how to create a desktop > >>icon and use the command "wine freecell" to be run. > >> > >>In KDE, you can right click on the desktop and select Create New/ File/ > >>Link to application. > > > > This works fine for any normal application, but chokes on 'wine freecell' > > To be sure, these were the steps I followed: > > Right click on desktop. > > Create New/ File -> Link to application > > Properties for Program.Desktop >Application > > Description: Freecell > > Command:/home/john/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/wine freecell.exe _> OK > > Icon is now created on desktop:Link to Applocation. > > Click on Icon. > > Error Message: > > KDEInit could not launch > > '/home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/wine freecell.exe' > > John > > Some programs, when run under Wine, choke when they are not started from > their home directory. Some don't care. It's a matter of trial and error > to find out which is which, but apparently Freecell is one of the ones > that cares. > > The solution to this is to write a short script to cd to the home > directory, then start the app. > > In this case, it would go like this: > > #!/bin/sh > cd .wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell # (because any terminal begins in > your home directory already) > wine freecell.exe > > > Save that as freecell.sh, make it executable and save it in /home/john. > > You can then make your Link to Application point to > /home/john/freecell.sh and use the link to start the app. > > Although.... how come your Program Files is ProgramFiles, and not > Program\ Files (or something with the space? That might be your problem > right there... is that the correct path? > > Hope this helps. > > Holly > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
