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I have a shell script which is a wine command to open an .exe file, which looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

wine wow.exe -opengl

Its only purpose is to run that .exe file. It works if I just double click the script. The location of the script is the same as the .exe file. What I want is to have a desktop application, i.e. an icon I can pin to my dock, which executes this shell script. My desktop application file looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]

Comment=WoW

Exec=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.sh

Icon=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=false

Name[en_US]=WoW

I can successfully pin the application to my dock, the icon even shows up, but when I click the application, nothing happens, the cursor gets stuck into an infinite loading icon. Have I missed anything?

scripts wine .desktop executable ubuntu-dock

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  What happens if you change the Exec= line to Exec=wine wow.exe -opengl? Also instead of wine wow.exe with wine "C:pathtowow.exe"?
  
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  I changed Exec= to Exec= wine "C:homesiegmeyerDocumentsWoWWoW.exe" -opengl but it does not work, now nothing loads
  
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  Changing in that way would not work, you need to have the executable in your .wine directory and then you'll have to use virtual Windows-like path. What about Exec=wine "/full/path/to/wow.exe" -opengl?
  
  – pomsky
  yesterday
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

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6

1

I have a shell script which is a wine command to open an .exe file, which looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

wine wow.exe -opengl

Its only purpose is to run that .exe file. It works if I just double click the script. The location of the script is the same as the .exe file. What I want is to have a desktop application, i.e. an icon I can pin to my dock, which executes this shell script. My desktop application file looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]

Comment=WoW

Exec=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.sh

Icon=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=false

Name[en_US]=WoW

I can successfully pin the application to my dock, the icon even shows up, but when I click the application, nothing happens, the cursor gets stuck into an infinite loading icon. Have I missed anything?

scripts wine .desktop executable ubuntu-dock

share|improve this question

edited yesterday

mth1417u

asked yesterday

mth1417umth1417u

3551214

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  What happens if you change the Exec= line to Exec=wine wow.exe -opengl? Also instead of wine wow.exe with wine "C:pathtowow.exe"?
  
  – pomsky
  yesterday
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I changed Exec= to Exec= wine "C:homesiegmeyerDocumentsWoWWoW.exe" -opengl but it does not work, now nothing loads
  
  – mth1417u
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Changing in that way would not work, you need to have the executable in your .wine directory and then you'll have to use virtual Windows-like path. What about Exec=wine "/full/path/to/wow.exe" -opengl?
  
  – pomsky
  yesterday
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I have a shell script which is a wine command to open an .exe file, which looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

wine wow.exe -opengl

Its only purpose is to run that .exe file. It works if I just double click the script. The location of the script is the same as the .exe file. What I want is to have a desktop application, i.e. an icon I can pin to my dock, which executes this shell script. My desktop application file looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]

Comment=WoW

Exec=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.sh

Icon=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=false

Name[en_US]=WoW

I can successfully pin the application to my dock, the icon even shows up, but when I click the application, nothing happens, the cursor gets stuck into an infinite loading icon. Have I missed anything?

scripts wine .desktop executable ubuntu-dock

share|improve this question

edited yesterday

mth1417u

asked yesterday

mth1417umth1417u

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#!/bin/bash

wine wow.exe -opengl

[Desktop Entry]

Comment=WoW

Exec=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.sh

Icon=/home/siegmeyer/Documents/WoW/WoW.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=false

Name[en_US]=WoW

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edited yesterday

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asked yesterday

mth1417umth1417u

3551214

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edited yesterday

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To make sure the script is looking for the executable in the right directory, you could change the call to

wine "$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")/wow.exe" -opengl

This will insert the absolute path of the script (and thus the exe) into the call. It would work without the quotes for paths that don't contain whitespace, but I recommend to keep them in case you move the directory.

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To make sure the script is looking for the executable in the right directory, you could change the call to

wine "$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")/wow.exe" -opengl

This will insert the absolute path of the script (and thus the exe) into the call. It would work without the quotes for paths that don't contain whitespace, but I recommend to keep them in case you move the directory.

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8

To make sure the script is looking for the executable in the right directory, you could change the call to

wine "$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")/wow.exe" -opengl

This will insert the absolute path of the script (and thus the exe) into the call. It would work without the quotes for paths that don't contain whitespace, but I recommend to keep them in case you move the directory.

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answered yesterday

MurphyMurphy

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To make sure the script is looking for the executable in the right directory, you could change the call to

wine "$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")/wow.exe" -opengl

This will insert the absolute path of the script (and thus the exe) into the call. It would work without the quotes for paths that don't contain whitespace, but I recommend to keep them in case you move the directory.

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MurphyMurphy

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wine "$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")")/wow.exe" -opengl

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MurphyMurphy

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answered yesterday

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answered yesterday

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