I have an application (Star Trek Bridge Commander) which runs fine on Wine when I navigate to its directory and 'open with -> Wine Windows Program Loader' from the right click menu. Unfortunately, it quits with a runtime error if I try to use 'wine (path)' or 'wine start (path)' in the terminal. This is a problem because I am trying to make a custom shortcut (.desktop file) to open it.
Thankyou for any assistance :)
You need to
cd
into the directory of the file and then run
wine APPNAME
to run your program.
For example, the following will give STBC (and many other applications) a runtime error:
wine /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\(x86\)/Activision/Bridge\ Commander/stbc.exe
The correct set of commands to use is:
cd /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\(x86\)/Activision/Bridge\ Commander
wine stbc.exe
This is apparently because it gives the application the correct working directory, which does not happen with the first example.
How to put the working set of commands into a single command for use in a .desktop file (shortcut), however, is something I don't know how to do, so I simply created a bash script containing both commands and linked the .desktop file to that instead.