[Wine]Desktop Icons

[Walt Ogburn]

True - I'm not sure what $PATH the KDE launcher sees, though.  It might
not be the same as the user's path.


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Walt Ogburn wrote:
> > Isn't it freecell.exe that's in
> > /home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell, not wine?  It would make
> > more sense as
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/wine /home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/freecell.exe
> >
> > - Walter
>
> Also a good point ;-) . Although the wine binary should be in the $PATH,
> so one should normally not need to use the full path to it.
>
> Holly
>
> >>>>John Wildberger wrote:
> >>>>| I have the program 'freecell' in the directory:
> >>>>|
> >>>>| [john]: 09:28 AM  [~/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell]
> >>>>| $ wine freecell     will start the program.
> >>>>| What do I have to do to create an Icon on the desktop that will start the
> >>>>| program?
> >>>>
> >>>>consult your window manager (KDE, Gnome, ...) how to create a desktop
> >>>>icon and use the command "wine freecell" to be run.
> >>>>
> >>>>In KDE, you can right click on the desktop and select Create New/ File/
> >>>>Link to application.
> >>>
> >>>This works fine for any normal application, but chokes on 'wine freecell'
> >>>To be sure, these were the steps I followed:
> >>>Right click on desktop.
> >>>Create New/ File  -> Link to application
> >>>Properties for Program.Desktop >Application
> >>>Description: Freecell
> >>>Command:/home/john/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/wine freecell.exe _> OK
> >>>Icon is now created on desktop:Link to Applocation.
> >>>Click on Icon.
> >>>Error Message:
> >>>KDEInit could not launch
> >>> '/home/john/.wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Freecell/wine freecell.exe'
> >>>John
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