Hi. Is there anyway of registering the .exe extension into Gnome/KDE? Now you are forced to run it from the command line which is a bit extra time consuming! chefsansvarig@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > i did find it after searching a bit.i am now running winamp just fine. > Thank you very much for all the help! > > Segin wrote: > > chefsansvarig@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Second,yes,i do actually know how to run it but i cant find a proper > > > search path which leads to the windows binary. > > > i dont have a .wine directory. > > > > I will demonstrate with my shell-fu what to do. > > > > From your command shell, you probably have a prompt like this: > > > > [ segin@segin:~ ]$ > > > > Now, when you run 'ls' in your home directory (represented by the shell > > magic charater '~'), none of the files whose names start with a dot are > > shown. `.wine' is essentially a hidden folder. You can't see it in the > > GUI or a standard 'ls' output. > > > > Try this: > > > > ls -ld ~/.wine > > > > You should see something like this: > > > > drwxr-xr-x 4 segin root 184 Oct 21 00:10 /home/segin/.wine > > > > Note that using ~ in the shell is like typing out your full HOME > > directory path in just one letter. > > > > Now, `cd' into the .wine directory, and the virtual drive C: like so: > > > > cd ~/.wine/drive_c/ > > > > Now, run `ls' again: > > > > [ segin@segin:~/.wine/drive_c ]$ ls -l > > total 2 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 segin root 240 Sep 16 00:27 Office10 > > drwxr-xr-x 26 segin root 824 Oct 21 00:08 Program Files > > drwxr-xr-x 9 segin root 528 Oct 1 17:06 sysreset > > drwxr-xr-x 2 segin root 416 Oct 4 19:15 tmp > > drwxr-xr-x 11 segin root 688 Oct 16 06:23 windows > > [ segin@segin:~/.wine/drive_c ]$ > > > > Now, look at the `Program Files' folder. there's a space in the name, > > which really confuses the shell, but there's away around that. > > > > Escape the space. > > > > Now, you may be looking at this thinking "escape the what?", and I know, > > I thought the same thing wen I first learned how to use the GNU Bourne > > Again Shell (GNU bash). It's simple. You put an escape charater `\' > > before the space, like so: > > > > cd Program\ files/ > > > > (note that file names are CaSe SeNsItIvE, that is, you can have a file > > STARTREK, StarTrek, and starttrek, and they would all be seperate files.) > > > > When you find the Winamp directory, just run this: > > > > wine winamp > > > > (Wine can automatically guess the .exe extension if not specified, and > > searches for the executable case-insensitively. That means that if you > > have a file `WINAMP.EXE', `winamp' will match it. Just be careful you > > don't have a matching file in `c:\\windows\\system32' or so.) > > > > > > --------------enigA679F7D11B5834BE0FF05A93 > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > > Content-Disposition: inline; > > filename="signature.asc" > > Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature > > X-Google-AttachSize: 253 _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
