QQ_ghost wrote: > I am aware that wine will create a .xpm for the icon in the program file, but how would I create it after a "manual install"? > > I recently copied mspaint from my win partition to my wine installation and would like an icon on the user desktop link. Several programs I have for windows may require a manual install, so I would like to know how the .xpm is created. You have to have .lnk file for this. You can't force Wine to extract just an icon.