On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 22:38 +0100, Kirrus wrote: > 2) Wine and Launchers > I've installed a program called BibleWorks 4.0, using Wine. It seems > to be working, but I can't create a shortcut to it. Here's the > problem: > It's accessible at: > /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe > If I open the terminal, go to the "BibleWorks 4.0" directory and then > type "wine bworks95.exe" everything runs perfectly. If, however, I > type "wine /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BibleWorks\ > 4.0/bworks95.exe" - there's a problem. > I think it does begin to launch BibleWorks, but the first thing > BibleWorks does is open a small window claiming not to be able to find > the registration files, and then refusing to go further. > The upshot of this is that I don't know how to create a > shortcut/launcher to let me launch it without having to go through the > whole palava of open-terminal/cd-to-directory/launch-by-hand. > Again not a big deal, but if there's something obvious I'm missing... > (Kirrus - I thought, could make a shell script to do the cd etc.. but > there's got to be a better solution...)
I use shell scripts for this kinda thing, create one called something like bworks95.sh in the directory: /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/ With something simple like: #!/bin/sh cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/ wine bworks95.exe Then chmod u+x it and set the shortcut to the .sh rather than the .exe. -Gav -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
