On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 19:37 -0600, jobsworth6912 wrote: > It would be nice to have an icon on the desktop to start the game or > a menu entry. > Ubuntu almost certainly has a method for creating an application launcher for your game though I don't know where it is or what its called because I don't use Ubuntu. On Fedora it is part of the "Main Menu" system tool. > Wine does sometimes generate menu entries but for this game I have to > browse with nautilus to .wine and then to SoF2.exe, right click on it and then select wine. > winecfg-->drives must include /media/sofii_1 or it cannot find the cd. > IMO the best way to do all this is to write a wrapper script for the game and point the launcher at that rather than the EXE. See http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/launcher_script.html and/or search the Wine forum archives for "wrapper script". > There is no easy way to implement the path variable under wine except > using wine regedit and even then wine cannot find SoF2.exe. > The link above also tells you how to change the search path. Martin
