Interface for working directories/launchers

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Fri Dec 24 05:12:08 CST 2004


Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> writes:

> My proposal is to have a new winelib app "winemenulauncher" which simply
> takes the working directory, program and arguments, and runs the program
> but switching current directory first, ie the menu entry would look like:
> 
> Exec=wine winemenulauncher c:\games\supreme supreme.exe
> 
> Hopefully this should let us fix the case of games like Dungeon Keeper
> which actually crash when run from their install directory.
> 
> Does this sound sensible?

The right way is to use start.exe on the .lnk file.

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Alexandre Julliard
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