App won't launch from desktop, but will from Terminal?!?

[RRlax]

Ubuntu 16.04 with Wine / 32-bit prefix & have KeePass 2.36 installed.

On Ubuntu's Unity desktop, I have an icon to launch that has the following as the Command:

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wine  ~/.wine/drive_c/Programs/Kpass/KeePass.exe

When I double-click, it seems to start, the icon appears in the launcher bar for a little while, and then all signs of any loading of the program ends and the icon disappears.
If I open a terminal window and paste the command into it exactly as above, the program runs fine, but does have some fixme lines showing in terminal.
Why won't it run from the desktop configuration file?

This is what I get in the Terminal window from start to the first window appearing:

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localuser@compuer:~$ wine  ~/.wine/drive_c/Programs/Kpass/KeePass.exe
fixme:thread:SetThreadStackGuarantee (0x32fc38): stub
fixme:nls:CompareStringEx semi-stub behavior for flag(s) 0x10000000
err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised
fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x60345090) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x32effc,0x00000800,0x32efa4) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:gdiplus:GdipGetFamilyName No support for handling of multiple languages!
fixme:gdiplus:resample_bitmap_pixel Unimplemented interpolation 7
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_GETLANGOPTIONS: stub
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_GETLANGOPTIONS: stub
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_SETLANGOPTIONS: stub
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage ECO_AUTOWORDSELECTION not implemented yet!
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:gdiplus:GdipCreateHalftonePalette stub
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0xc0c32 0x00000000
fixme:ole:CoGetApartmentType (0xcd9e788, 0xcd9e784): semi-stub
fixme:ole:CoGetApartmentType (0x32dd20, 0x32dc98): semi-stub
fixme:process:FlushProcessWriteBuffers : stub
fixme:ole:Context_CC_ContextCallback (0x3f62c78/0x3f62c7c)->(0x79f277a5, 0x2dee448, {d7174f82-36b8-4aa8-800a-e963ab2dfab9}, 2, (nil))

[dimesio]

Why won't it run from the desktop configuration file?

Because you can't use ~ in .desktop files. You need to provide the full path. You should also use wine start /unix when using a unix-style path.

[Bob Wya]

Ubuntu 16.04 with Wine / 32-bit prefix & have KeePass 2.36 installed.
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It seems a bit odd to me that you aren't just using KeepassXC. This is a native Linux application that can open Keepass 1 / 2 databases and operates in a similar way to Keepass 2. I use it myself and it interoperates perfectly!

Bob

[RRlax]

Why won't it run from the desktop configuration file?

Because you can't use ~ in .desktop files. You need to provide the full path. You should also use wine start /unix when using a unix-style path.

Thank you! That solved the problem.

As to the post about using the native Linux app, I guess my hesitation on that may have been that the app doesn't come from the author of KeePass, and I don't want to take a chance - how can I trust that XC software - especially since Linux/Ubuntu does not have easy way of user control of what apps can access the internet....

[Bob Wya]

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As to the post about using the native Linux app, I guess my hesitation on that may have been that the app doesn't come from the author of KeePass, and I don't want to take a chance - how can I trust that XC software - especially since Linux/Ubuntu does not have easy way of user control of what apps can access the internet....

1) KeepassX and KeepassXC are open source as well.
2) How can you really trust your Keepass 2 binary then?

After all applications running under Wine are not sandboxed... Sounds to me like your arguments are seriously flawed...

Bob