Hey, I'm new to the forums but by no means a noob but it's come to the point lately where I'm creating scripts (bash mixed with autoit) where I create a new bottle, silently install the program and then do any fixes etc in the script making it all completely automated (as i tend to re-install my system a lot) The issue I'm having though is the shortcuts wine creates Desktop shortcuts i can simply do an rm -f $HOME/Desktop/app.desktop but the menu options are becoming annoying ALL installed apps get menu's created in the wine section (im using Gnome with ubuntu 8.10 intrepid) but I wish to create my own shortcuts so i can have ,for example, photoshop CS2 in the graphics menu Now i know how to create the shortcuts etc What I want to know, is there any way to prevent wine from creating it's own shortcuts?
jasetaylor
2008-Dec-03 20:47 UTC
[Wine] Re: How can I prevent Wine from creating shortcuts????
btw please don't direct me to this http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 it is not what I'm after Also, reason i need my own shortcuts aswell is that as you know, some apps need special parameters to run ie spore runs well with the safe mode flag enabled, half life with the dxlevel8 flag etc
jasetaylor
2008-Dec-03 20:58 UTC
[Wine] Re: How can I prevent Wine from creating shortcuts????
austin987 wrote:> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:47 PM, jasetaylor <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > btw > > > > please don't direct me to this > > > > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 > > > > it is not what I'm after > > > > Also, reason i need my own shortcuts aswell is that as you know, some apps need special parameters to run > > > > ie spore runs well with the safe mode flag enabled, half life with the dxlevel8 flag etc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You'd have to either edit the code to not create links, or easier, use > your script to remove them. > > -- > -Austinis there no easier way? no parameter or anything for wine executable or global variable? It's just that if i must use the script to remove them, then i have to install the program manually anyways, find all the associated icons, and .desktop files to delete them and seeing as i have other .desktop links on my desktop and other apps in the main .wine bottle, this is not something i'd like to do
jasetaylor
2008-Dec-03 21:16 UTC
[Wine] Re: How can I prevent Wine from creating shortcuts????
Thanks for the help anyways Austin Looks like removing them via the script is to be the only option How does crossover and cedega do it though? have they edited the source? (not fond of compiling source code if the deb's are already there)
jasetaylor
2008-Dec-03 22:10 UTC
[Wine] Re: How can I prevent Wine from creating shortcuts????
Unfortunately, im only a web applications programmer (mainly PHP) so my skill in reading code ends there Unless someone else knows anything on this, ill keep it to deleting manually in the scripts Thanks for your help