Kevin Mark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:35:29PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop
when I install a new program? I need to install a browser plugin only
available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music
theory. I'd like to be able to install Firefox for Windows and see the
icon on my desktop for easy access. (For those interested, the music
theory site is: http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm and in some of
its pages, like http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory8.htm, it uses a
plugin called Sibelius Scorch to allow viewing and listening to musical
scores.)
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Sincerely
Hi Jose,
I do this:
create a file called 'firefox.exe' in ~/bin
firefox.exe contains:
#-----------------------
$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe $@
#-----------------------
chmod +x ~/bin/firefox.exe
then I can run 'firefox.exe' to start it, or
'firefox.exe http://www.google.com' to open a web site.
cheers,
Kev
Thanks Kevin. I remember when I used wine (in my recently previous
redhat days) that wine itself (on installation) created an actual icon
on the desktop which could just be clicked and executed (sort of as if
the program were running in windows but in fact it really ran in
linux). The icon was a desktop file (*.desktop) (for gnome or kde) that
contained a line similar to what you wrote above to execute the program
(all together with an excellent displaying graphic).
The packages I got for my system then were directly from the wine site.
This makes me believe that wine has the capability of creating desktop
icons (on installation) regardless of platform.
I'll see what I can find, but in the mean time, I'll do exactly as you
say above. Thanks!
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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque
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