Environment: Ubuntu 8.01, Wine 1.0.0, fresh installs.
I'm trying to get Irfanview (yes I know about the alleged clone. It
isn't) to work as an "open with" program for .jpg files. I have
placed it in the "open with" table When I click (gnome) on a .jpg,
Irfanview opens with a blank screen. I've done some experimenting and it
appears that the arguments are not being passed properly to Irfanview and/or
Irfanview can't use what is being passed.
I have learned that, for example, Irfanview can be started from a shell prompt
using ".\foo.jpg" as the argument but not "./foo.jpg" which
is to be expected. However, Irfanview also fails when given an argument like
\home\jgd\foo.jpg" and also fails when given an argument relative to
drive_c such as c:\photos\foo.jpg".
Questions:
- Can I do what I want to do?
- If so what is the command line syntax that I should use?
- Short of writing a windows program, how do I find out what command line is
actually being passed?
One other tidbit that might be important. The Irfanview installer would not
run. I haven't had a chance to see why yet. Nothing happens on a double
click to the installer. I had to install on a windows drive and copy everything
over. I was pretty sure that Irfanview doesn't use the registry for
anything important, as I've done the same procedure to a new windows drive
and everything worked.
I know that I could probably solve the problem with a shell script but I'd
like to be able to address the problem directly
thanks,
John