Windows Application only starts in a Terminal

[meyer]

I'm on Xubuntu 20.04 with Wine 5.8. I use Avisynth+ and AvsPmod (an editor for avisynth). I know there is a linux port of avisynth+ but the most filters are windows only. AvsPmod can open *.avs scripts and edit them with a preview of the video. I open the scripts using the Open with function in thunar or nemo.

With Wine 7.0.1 (stable), Wine 7.22 (devel) and Wine 8.0 RC2 on ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 this doesn't work. When i right click on a avs file and choose avspmod the program is opened for a short moment and closed. avspmod works when i use a terminal

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env WINEPREFIX=/home/meyer/.wine wine "/home/meyer/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AvsPmod/AvsPmod.exe" script.avs

or when i enable terminal in the desktop file

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Terminal=true

Then every time avspmod opens a avs script a terminal window is opened.

Other windows applications are working. I can open avs scripts in virtualdub without problems. That terminal window is very annoying.

[meyer]

No idea?

[jkfloris]

or when i enable terminal in the desktop file

Could you post the complete .desktop-file?

[meyer]

This doesn't work because of "Terminal=false":

[Desktop Entry]
Name=AvsPmod
Exec=env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/home/meyer/.wine" wine "/home/meyer/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AvsPmod/AvsPmod.exe"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=avspmod
Terminal=false

this works:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=AvsPmod
Exec=env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/home/meyer/.wine" wine "/home/meyer/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AvsPmod/AvsPmod.exe"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=avspmod
Terminal=true

the problem only occurs with this program.

[jkfloris]

It looks like you are using the default wineprefix. Therefore, you don't need to use the WINEPREFIX variable. The WINEARCH variable can only be used when creating the prefix, so you can leave that out as well. On the other hand, it is also not bad to use them.

Could you try the following desktop files with the wine start (/unix) command?

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=AvsPmod
Exec=env wine start "C:\\Program Files\\AvsPmod\\AvsPmod.exe" %f
Type=Application
Icon=avspmod

Or with all variables:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=AvsPmod
Exec=env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/home/meyer/.wine" wine start /unix "/home/meyer/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AvsPmod/AvsPmod.exe" %f
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=avspmod
Terminal=false

[meyer]

Works, thank you.

What is the difference? I never had problems using the "unix path".

[jkfloris]

I think this is related to the program. If I try to start AvsPmod without wine start the program creates a error_log.txt file with:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 43, in <module>
  File "avsp.pyo", line 18060, in main
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 7981, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
  File "avsp.pyo", line 18047, in OnInit
  File "avsp.pyo", line 5385, in __init__
  File "avsp.pyo", line 5532, in ProcessArguments
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp0

Somehow the encoding is not being properly passed to Wine. Whether this is a bug in Python 2.7, the program or in Wine, I don't know.