Hi. I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version of firefox in linux. When I download a file and tell firefox which application to use with it, the application opens fine. But the path of the file given to it by firefox is in windows style (C:\...). Is there a (easy) way to tell wine to covert the path to linux style? If yes, where can I read more about it? Thanks, Jan
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 13:41, Jan Murawski wrote:> Hi. > > I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version > of firefox in linux.There's your problem. Why on earth would you ever want to do that? Some researhc project maybe? Or do you need some Flash/ActiveX thingy? Just install and run the Linux version of firefox on Linux! alan
On Tuesday November 21 2006 11:41, Jan Murawski wrote:> I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version of > firefox in linux. When I download a file and tell firefox which > application to use with it, the application opens fine. But the path of > the file given to it by firefox is in windows style (C:\...). Is there a > (easy) way to tell wine to covert the path to linux style? If yes, where > can I read more about it?Yes. Go to Desktop. You can find there at least two entries: "My Computer" (with all your disks) and "/". "/" is root of your unix file-system. Also you can go to "Z:\" - this is also root of your unix file-system. Wine always have Z: disk by default. You may use winecfg to create more disks if you wish. For example it is good idea to create disk that points directly to your home directory.
----- Original Message ---- From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> To: wine-users@winehq.org Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:12:18 AM Subject: Re: [Wine] windows programms starting linux programms On Tuesday 21 November 2006 13:41, Jan Murawski wrote:> Hi. > > I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version > of firefox in linux.There's your problem. Why on earth would you ever want to do that? Some researhc project maybe? Or do you need some Flash/ActiveX thingy? Just install and run the Linux version of firefox on Linux! alan =================Alan's comment aside, you can run it by typing: (no caret of course, and you may need to adjust the path for your specific version.)> wine "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"People want to run Firefox (or other Linux equiv apps) for various reasons. For awhile, the dev alias was doing this for exact type of testing to make sure that we "ate our own dogfood". Before Flash 9 was available on Linux, people installed Windows Firefox to visit sites that required that version of Flash. Hiji ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $420k for $1,399/mo. Calculate new payment! LowerMyBills.com/lre
On Tuesday November 21 2006 11:41, Jan Murawski wrote:> Hi. > > I have got the following problem: I'd like to use the windows version of > firefox in linux. When I download a file and tell firefox which > application to use with it, the application opens fine. But the path of > the file given to it by firefox is in windows style (C:\...). Is there a > (easy) way to tell wine to covert the path to linux style? If yes, where > can I read more about it?Forgot to say. You can also use winepath to convert between different paths. So you can easy convert from Windows path to Unix path. You can to use this command to provide Unix path for Linux applications from within Windows application. Just instead of application use simple script. For example create with your favorite text editor file /usr/bin/linuxapplication.win with following content: for i in $@ { paths="$paths `winepath --unix $i`"; } linuxapplication $paths Call linuxapplication.win instead of linuxapplication from Windows application under Wine. It should work for most cases. Of course you should replace "linuxapplication" with actual name of your linux application.
Hi Jan, I wrote about this in the list some time ago. People from the wine-wiki.org put the sugestions at their site. You can take a look at the site and see if it helps you (I am almost sure it helps): wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Runing_Linux_software_From_Wine Just an observation: I am subscribed in digest-mode, so if you need more explanations, please CC me. Also, if you want, we have produced a more elaborated script that create entries at the system.reg in order to treat all kind of extensions you would like. It also produces the "windows executable" (a shell script, in fact) in order to launch the Linux app. []s. --------------------------------------------------------- Ulisses de Sousa Penna Analista Consultor - Banco do Brasil Fone: +55-61-3310-6320 Fax: +55-61-3310-6435 ---------------------------------------------------------
penna@bb.com.br schrieb:> Hi Jan, > > I wrote about this in the list some time ago. People from the > wine-wiki.org put the sugestions at their site. > You can take a look at the site and see if it helps you (I am > almost sure it helps): > > wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Runing_Linux_software_From_Wine >Thanks!
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