[Wine] Newbie wants to run Forte Agent

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Wine extracts embedded icons from exes when creating shortcuts and
running a windows program.

wineshelllink's --icon option only uses images the system can display,
like png,xpm... so embedded icons cant work.

--- "James E. Lang" <jelly at ktb.net> a écrit :

> Does this answer apply specifically to Forte Agent (as mentioned in the
> subject) or generally to all applications? I ask because Nothing has appeared
> on the desktop when I have installed Pegasus Mail under Wine nor do I have
> access to the program's icon which is embedded in the .exe file.
> 
> Since reading this message I have tried out wineshelllink. The only problem I
> had with it was that for some reason it did not act on my --icon specification.
> I suppose it was a case of cockpit error.
> 
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote at 14:31 on 14 Feb 2006:
> 
> > If you do the install under wine, it creates the links on your linux desktop
> > with the correct icon.
> > Otherwise you can create it with wineshelllink.
> >
> > --- Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Does Wine have the concept of a Desktop with icons or is winefile what
> > > we must use?
> > >
> 
> --
> Jim
> 
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Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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