WINEPREFIX shortcut

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:16 pm

How do you make a WINEPREFIX shortcut? I type in the command "WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-steam/ wine "c:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" but it just ends up crashing.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:43 pm

Snake450 wrote:How do you make a WINEPREFIX shortcut? I type in the command "WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-steam/ wine "c:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" but it just ends up crashing.

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env WINEPREFIX="/home/vitamin/.wine-steam" wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe"

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:58 pm

Alright I'll what happens

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:05 am

I first got "wine: invalid directory WINEPREFIX : not an absolute path" then I took off the "/home/jack/" and used ~ and now I get "Failed to initialize client - unable to load game resources"

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:19 am

Snake450 wrote:I first got "wine: invalid directory WINEPREFIX : not an absolute path" then I took off the "/home/jack/" and used ~ and now I get "Failed to initialize client - unable to load game resources"

You can't use "~" in .desktop shortcuts. It's not valid expansion there. It only works with shell.

What's the full content of your .desktop link looks like?

Snake450 · Post by **Snake450** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:19 am

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-FEAR/ wine "C:\Program Files\Sierra\FEARCombat\FEARMP.exe"

to get the second error but It wont find the game if I use the second with /home/jack/

env WINEPREFIX="home/jack/.wine-FEAR/" wine "C:\Program Files\Sierra\FEARCombat\FEARMP.exe"

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:03 am

I asked for the complete content of the .desktop file. Not few lines of something that's not even a correct command.

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