Wine HQ in Macosx

jabertolin · Post by **jabertolin** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:19 pm

Hi

I started to work with a new platform: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.4.0 (coming from Ubuntu-Linux) and I tried to use Wine HQ with some XP programs that they worked successfully in Ubuntu with WH.

Now, actually, they work fine as well in MacOSX (so congratulations) however, I remember that in Linux I was able to create a link from my desktop to run directly the application and now I do not know how to do it in MacOSX. Currently I have to use WinFIle.exe to access the correspondent folder and execute manually there the Windows Application but it is not fair and takes time to get the folder.

How could I do it to run the application from the desktop?

Thanks

JAB

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:21 pm

jabertolin wrote:

Hi

I started to work with a new platform: MacOSX Leopard 10.5.4.0 (coming from Ubuntu-Linux) and I tried to use Wine HQ with some XP programs that they worked successfully in Ubuntu with WH.

Which Darwine build are you working with? I think that Mike
Kronenberg's Darwine releases actually created links to the applications
on my MacOSX desktop. I have several of them from installed programs.

James Mckenzie

jabertolin · Post by **jabertolin** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:18 am

I'm using 1.1.6 Beta. Currently it is not creating the shortcuts in the Desktop. Is it any way to create them manually?

Thanks

dawinsor87 · Post by **dawinsor87** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:25 pm

I ran in to this problem when I was trying to play with Darwine. You can get shortcuts on your desktop, but it's kinda roundabout.

The only way I've found to do it is in finder do go>go to folder and then I think it's /user/whatever your user is/.wine and then you can view all of wine's files and browse drive_c and drag stuff to the dock or whatever.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:09 pm

dawinsor87 wrote:I ran in to this problem when I was trying to play with Darwine. You can get shortcuts on your desktop, but it's kinda roundabout.

The only way I've found to do it is in finder do go>go to folder and then I think it's /user/whatever your user is/.wine and then you can view all of wine's files and browse drive_c and drag stuff to the dock or whatever.

Sounds like mac os x is not XDG compliant. You might want to bug Apple about this.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:28 pm

vitamin wrote:

dawinsor87 wrote:

I ran in to this problem when I was trying to play with Darwine. You can get shortcuts on your desktop, but it's kinda roundabout.

The only way I've found to do it is in finder do go>go to folder and then I think it's /user/whatever your user is/.wine and then you can view all of wine's files and browse drive_c and drag stuff to the dock or whatever.

Sounds like mac os x is not XDG compliant. You might want to bug Apple about this.

In one version, and I think it was Zach Parker's, I was able to get the
.lnk files to appear on the Desktop. I run a specific program and some
versions of Darwine cooperate with the .lnk files and some versions do
not. You can use Winehelper to run the program of your choice as well.

James McKenzie