Need help!!! Newbie to Wine.

[Christopher Morgan]

Of course.  Infact if you install an applicatoin under wine wine will
itself create an icon for you.  You can also just create an icon that
executes 'wine <program_executable>' and you'll have accomplished the same
thing.

Chris


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Anthony Brice wrote:

> No in the Linux Xwindow can you make an association to the application on the
> desktop, just like Win98?
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> Anthony Brice
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> Christopher Morgan wrote:
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> > I'm not sure what you mean by the xterm environment... the windows
> > environment and the mapping from local paths to windows drives is done via
> > the ./wine/config file, is this the kind of thing you are referring to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Anthony Brice wrote:
> >
> > > Fine and understandable. So all I should have to do now is get my Lotus client
> > > cd and install the product onto my laptop? If that is the case I will do that.
> > > Is there a way to put wine on to execute a program in the Xterm environment?
> > >
> > > Anthony Brice
> > >
> > > Brandon Kilgore wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wine is not designed to give you a windows environment (i.e. Windows
> > > > explorer shell), but rather allow you to run windows programs in the X
> > > > Windows environment.  To run a windows program, simply make sure the files
> > > > are in disk directory that you set up during the wine install, and type
> > > > wine program.exe (replacing program.exe with the exucatable you are trying
> > > > to run).
> > > >
> > > >   - Brandon
> > > >
> > > > At 02:33 PM 8/6/01 +0000, Anthony Brice wrote:
> > > > >I have installed Red hat 7.1 on my Ultra Hinote laptop. I was quite
> > > > >proud to get my sound working and ethernet/modem card working and X
> > > > >window. I was surfing on the web and notice a development product called
> > > > >WINE touting the capability to 16/32 API apps in the wine environment
> > > > >with it sitting on the Linux kernel. I got the latest rpm from the WINE
> > > > >website in rpm format and ran the command rpm -i wine-XXXXX.rpm(simple
> > > > >so far). The install seems to go okay (no errors). I tried some
> > > > >commands, wine --help and it came up with the help messages. I tried
> > > > >wine -v and it told me the release of wine(20010731). What do I do now?
> > > > >Does not the environment come up has Windows environment. There is not
> > > > >setup.exe or installshield or install.exe to do this, I even looked for
> > > > >winesetup.exe with no luck.
> > > > >
> > > > >If anybody is out there with the patients to speak to a newbie it would
> > > > >be greatly appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > >How my the way I was thinking of installing wine so I could run my Lotus
> > > > >Notes client on it.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >Anthony Brice
> > > > >
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