On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Looks like a bug in Ubuntu that needs to be reported, if it has not been >> already. It is standard to use the tilde '~' to stand for the current >> user's HOME directory. This is not, as far as I know, a deficiency of Wine. >> > > It seems that > > xdg-open ~ > > works from a terminal but not a gnome-2.24 launcher. > > I typed the same command in gentoo and got the same result. > I know the reason now. In the gnome launcher ~ is already in effect. I tried nautilus ~ and I got the following error Could not find "/home/john/~". So instead of xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c the following should be in the launcher command xdg-open .wine/drive_c This works on gentoo and ubuntu intrepid John
