Wine shortcut error

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I have installed wine and it works from the command line, but it doesn’t when I create a kde desktop shortcut. I get the error:

Invalid name

but from the command line the same command (as a one line) works:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/froggy/.tchaos" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/froggy/.tchaos/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/Time\ \&\ Chaos.lnk

To make sure that I’m clear, the bash command line works, but not the KDE desktop shortcut

Thanks

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What if you pack that command line into a shell script…

#!/bin/sh
export WINEPREFIX="/home/froggy/.tchaos" 
exec wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/froggy/.tchaos/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/Time\ \&\ Chaos.lnk

… and refer to this script in your KDE shortcut?

Another alternative: I can imagine that »&« getting quite fragile during any command line evaluations between the shell and KDE. Since »&« is a special character to tell a shell to process a job in the background, strange things can happen with the filename *»Time & Chaos.lnk«. * Maybe try making the name this Windows link file safer to parse by renaming it to »timechaos.lnk« and change your wine command-line parameter accordingly? Fingers crossed.

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Thanks that go *** working. What I don’t understand is that the same shortcut as described works on an other (older laptop) opensuse leap 15.0.But thanks