Hmmm... I can see there is something I missed. I did not run into
"wineboot" when I was figuring out how to use wine, so I have not run
it. Should I? How?
The easiest thing would be to have the program in the Applications list.
What wine did was put an entry for Ventura 10, but it does not list the
program itself but 4 utilities. I had installed an earlier version of
Ventura (10 is an upgrade that will only install if the other is there),
and it is listed and works.
So I guess one posibility would be to use the Ventura 8 listing, and
modify it to run 10... but I will need a suggestion as to where editing
can be done. I have poked around, but suspect it must be done in the
Terminal.
I am running gnome, on Ubuntu.
And again, thanks for taking this on!!
José
Yeah, of course using two lines I provided you on regular basis is a mess.
There is two solutions for such problems. Choose one you like.
1) Most users want to run program by clicking on an icon. Simplest way is to
edit already existing shortcut - you should have it somewhere if your program
is installed properly (don't forget may need to run "wineboot" after
installation). If you don't have it or have some problems with editing it
then feel free to ask me for detailed instruction on how to create one but
first don't forget to tell me what do you using: GNOME or KDE.
2) I'm like console so here it is what I'm using (well, this isn't actually
what I'm using because I use zsh instead of bash and somewhat more complex
scripts). First, you need to know what shell are you using. Most likely it is
bash. So you need to edit /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/bashrc (its actual name
depends on what disro you are using) as following. Copy/paste there these
lines:
function ventura()
{
cd "`winepath 'C:\Program Files\Corel\Ventura 10/Programs/'`"
wine explorer /desktop=Ventura_10,800x600 ventura.exe $@
}
...And save it. Now, open new shell and then try to type there:
ventura
It should work. Also you can provide command line arguments to ventura like
files you want to open with it (some brain-dead Windows program support only
opening via File->Open... dialog but most should work as expected). You also
can run it without firering up X console. For example, in KDE I can press
Alt+F2 and then type something like this: "bash -ic ventura".
If you need more help on how to create launchable icon for your desktop
environment or how to setup functions for your shell then please tell me what
environment/shell you are using with which distro and I will try to help with
more detailed instructions, and don't forget to mention from where do you
want to launch your program: from desktop, from main menu or from quicklaunch
bar.
On Tuesday August 7 2007 19:35, Jose Young wrote:
Later...
Well, I found that when wine installed Windows, it did not install the
"standard" fonts, like Ariel or Times. So when I copied them to the wine
version of Windows, the "hunt for fonts" was reduced to two... and I
know which they are, so eventually... Anyway, that problem cleared up.
But one more thing. I now start the program from the terminal with two
lines of code that L. Rahyen sent me. Is there a way to put that into
the Applications list, or even make a "button" that would run it? This
method is pretty awkward.
Thanks for any suggestions
José
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