Where did C:\ go?

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 3:13 pm

I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10

Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer browse the C:\ dirve.

Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?

Thanks

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 3:21 pm

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, jerlinux <[email protected]> wrote:

I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10

Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer browse the C:\ dirve.

Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?

This has not worked in intrepid since I installed it 2 weeks ago. It
did not bother me though since I used gentoo on the laptop before I
installed intrepid and it had no c: link.

Gnuus · Post by **Gnuus** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:02 am

jerlinux wrote:I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10

Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer browse the C:\ dirve.

Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?

Thanks

Well, I bother and would like to see an answer to this....

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:37 am

Well, I bother and would like to see an answer to this....

Okay. I figured it out.

Click system

then Preferences

then Main Menu

Then find the "Browse C:\ Drive"

And click Properties

Then change
xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c

to

xdg-open /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c

where yourusername is the user you login with

So for me it was

xdg-open /home/john/.wine/drive_c

I am not sure why ~ does not equate to the current user perhaps
someone else can help with this bug.

John

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:23 am

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Austin English <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Wine] Where did C: go?
To: John Drescher <[email protected]>

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, I bother and would like to see an answer to this....

Okay. I figured it out.

Click system

then Preferences

then Main Menu

Then find the "Browse C:\ Drive"

And click Properties

Then change
xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c

to

xdg-open /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c

where yourusername is the user you login with

So for me it was

xdg-open /home/john/.wine/drive_c

I am not sure why ~ does not equate to the current user perhaps
someone else can help with this bug.

John

Sounds like a ubuntu bug...You might try $HOME which should work as well.

--
-Austin

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John M. Drescher

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:32 pm

John Drescher wrote:

Well, I bother and would like to see an answer to this....

I am not sure why ~ does not equate to the current user perhaps
someone else can help with this bug.

John

Looks like a bug in Ubuntu that needs to be reported, if it has not been
already. It is standard to use the tilde '~' to stand for the current
user's HOME directory. This is not, as far as I know, a deficiency of Wine.

James Mckenzie

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:57 pm

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:

Looks like a bug in Ubuntu that needs to be reported, if it has not been
already. It is standard to use the tilde '~' to stand for the current
user's HOME directory. This is not, as far as I know, a deficiency of Wine.

It seems that

xdg-open ~

works from a terminal but not a gnome-2.24 launcher.

I typed the same command in gentoo and got the same result.

I know the reason now. In the gnome launcher ~ is already in effect. I tried

nautilus ~

and I got the following error
Could not find "/home/john/~".

So instead of
xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c

the following should be in the launcher command
xdg-open .wine/drive_c

This works on gentoo and ubuntu intrepid

John