I am running 11.1 and loaded wine from the SUSE repository last week. I was able to install Photoshop 7.0 with no issue. I can launch Photoshop when I drill down the directory structure to where photoshop is installed. The path is root/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Photoshop 7.0/Photoshop.exe.
When I created the desktop shortcut using Geoff’s directions, it does not launch. I put the entire path.
I dual boot between XP and SUSE.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
It’s a couple of years since I used Wine. I now favor Virtual Box XP sessions for windows apps.
What happens if you drag or copy the .exe to the desktop?
The correct path is the key
Did wine not install the app in the menu under wine? You could add it to fav’s maybe?
First of all, I would not install wine apps as root. It’s safer to work as a normal user.
To lauch the windows app, first use the command line. Open a terminal as try to lauch the wine app. Figure out the complete path you have to use to start the app. Then make a new menu item or desktop shortcut using the complete path you used in the terminal.
FYI,
I’m using KDE 4.2, and I could run windows apps installed under wine from KRunner( ALT+F2 ), just type the name of the program, like photoshop in your case, and press enter,
And based on my experience, to make sure the application’s keyboard shortcut keys run perfectly under wine, you have to turn on the virtual desktop emulation setting in wine config ( run ‘winecfg’ from console ),
Goodluck!
gielhendriks wrote:
>
> First of all, I would not install wine apps as root. It’s safer to work
> as a normal user.
> To lauch the windows app, first use the command line. Open a terminal
> as try to lauch the wine app. Figure out the complete path you have to
> use to start the app. Then make a new menu item or desktop shortcut
> using the complete path you used in the terminal.
I have a couple of apps that don’t work unless you change the current
directory to the …/.wine/drive_c folder before you launch. Looks like
some programs are doing a questionable lookup for dll and other resources
that fail unless the wine drive is the launch default. I basically just:
copy the syntax of the first wine app I installed which (sheer luck?)
created a desktop launcher for me. That sets an environment variable for
wine that may be the key:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/will/.wine" wine "C\<app>"
and specifies a work path:
..../.wine/dosdevices/c:/<complete path to app>
These should accomplish the same thing as an explicit change to the app
directory. There are some really screwy things done by win apps when it
comes to path dependencies.
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Will Honea
why use root accounts?
There are dangers behind being root.
TaraIkeda wrote:
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> why use root accounts?
> There are dangers behind being root.
Agreed! Besides, I have enough problems with permissions without getting
into root path issues on top of all sorts of problems doing thing as a
normal user.
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Will Honea