[SOLVED]Wine shortcuts not doing anything?

[Sephiroth]

Alright, I installed LoMSE today after wiping all of Wine's files (~/.wine, ~/.thumbnails, etc) and it created the menu again, but the shortcut does nothing. Wine doesn't even attempt to load. What gives? The shortcut command is pasted below.

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/sephiroth/.wine" wine "C:\Games\Sierra\LOMSE\LomSE.exe" /cd=D:\

If I go into the hidden Wine directory and manually right-click the executable and choose "Open with Wine...", it runs fine. I also tried removing the "env" statement with the prefix and still nothing.

[vitamin]

Alright, I installed LoMSE today after wiping all of Wine's files (~/.wine, ~/.thumbnails, etc) and it created the menu again, but the shortcut does nothing.

What happens if you 'cd' into work directory firs then run this exact command in the terminal?

[Sephiroth]

Sorry I lost track of this thread. If I use KDE or a terminal and go into the LOMSE directory and right-click and choose "Open with Wine..." or type "wine ./lomse.exe" it works great! Played for an hour or so as a test and no problems. The shortcut isn't working however, and it's a HUGE inconvenience to use a terminal or enable hidden files in KDE and go to it myself. I corrected the line for capitol letters so the path is correct, and now looks like the one below. Still nothing.

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/<me>/.wine" wine "C:\Games\Sierra\LOMSE\lomse.exe" /cd=D:\

Any ideas?

[austin987]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sephiroth <[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry I lost track of this thread.  If I use KDE or a terminal and go into the LOMSE directory and right-click and choose "Open with Wine..." or type "wine ./lomse.exe" it works great!  Played for an hour or so as a test and no problems.  The shortcut isn't working however, and it's a HUGE inconvenience to use a terminal or enable hidden files in KDE and go to it myself.  I corrected the line for capitol letters so the path is correct, and now looks like the one below.  Still nothing.

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/<me>/.wine" wine "C:\Games\Sierra\LOMSE\lomse.exe" /cd=D:\



Any ideas?

Ubuntu recently made me mark a shortcut as safe to mark
executable...perhaps you need to do something similar in KDE?

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-Austin

[Sephiroth]

I looked through the menu editor but there is no "safe" flag. I have just the general stuff like "Run in terminal", "Enable launch feedback", etc. Still haven't figured out how to make it work via the menu. The funny thing is that other applications start properly from the Wine menu. It's as if Wine picks and chooses, though I know that isn't the case.

[austin987]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sephiroth <[email protected]> wrote:

I looked through the menu editor but there is no "safe" flag.  I have just the general stuff like "Run in terminal", "Enable launch feedback", etc.  Still haven't figured out how to make it work via the menu.  The funny thing is that other applications start properly from the Wine menu.  It's as if Wine picks and chooses, though I know that isn't the case.

This was a desktop shortcut. Under 'Permissions' tab, check 'Allow
executing file as program'.


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-Austin

[Sephiroth]

What permissions tab? I am in KDE and the menu editor doesn't have anything dealing wit permissions in it that I can find.

*EDIT*

Fixed it. The problem was "/cd=D:\" on the end of the command-line. I have no idea why Wine added that since it isn't added if you install the game in Windows 9X or XP, but it destroyed Wine in some way. When I clicked on the original link, the cursor wouldn't show an icon bouncing up and down as it normally does when a program loads. As soon as I removed that "/cd=" crap and clicked the link, it showed a bouncing LoMSE icon and then the game started. It even saw and used the CDROM properly without that line.

Now, is this something Wine does to label the optical drive as D:, or is this a bug?

[austin987]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Sephiroth <[email protected]> wrote:

What permissions tab?  I am in KDE and the menu editor doesn't have anything dealing wit permissions in it that I can find.

That was just a guess . I don't know, sorry.

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-Austin

[Sephiroth]

Well I am going to change this to solved and explain the solution since it was a bug either in Wine or the Wine installer.

To get the Lords of Magic shortcuts to work, I simply had to edit them and remove "/cd=D:" from the end of the command line. Wine added it for some reason and it caused the application to not even try to start.