wine users - Nov 2008 - Where did C:\ go?

I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10

Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer browse
the C:\ dirve.

Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?

Thanks

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, jerlinux <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10
>
> Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer
browse the C:\ dirve.
>
> Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?
>
This has not worked in intrepid since I installed it 2 weeks ago. It
did not bother me though since I used gentoo on the laptop before I
installed intrepid and it had no c: link.

jerlinux wrote:
> I was running wine with no problems until I upgraded ubuntu to 8.10
> 
> Now, programs start in wine but don't really run and I can no longer
browse the C:\ dirve.
> 
> Was there something else I had to do after the upgrade?
> 
> Thanks

Well, I bother and  would like to see an answer to this....

> Well, I bother and  would like to see an answer to this....
>
Okay. I figured it out.

Click system

then Preferences

then Main Menu

Then find the "Browse C:\ Drive"

And click Properties

Then change
xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c

to

xdg-open /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c

where yourusername is the user you login with

So for me it was

xdg-open /home/john/.wine/drive_c

I am not sure why ~ does not equate to the current user perhaps
someone else can help with this bug.

John

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Wine] Where did C: go?
To: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Well, I bother and  would like to see an answer to this....
>>
> Okay. I figured it out.
>
> Click system
>
> then Preferences
>
> then Main Menu
>
> Then find the "Browse C:\ Drive"
>
> And click Properties
>
> Then change
> xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c
>
> to
>
> xdg-open /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c
>
> where yourusername is the user you login with
>
> So for me it was
>
> xdg-open /home/john/.wine/drive_c
>
> I am not sure why ~ does not equate to the current user perhaps
> someone else can help with this bug.
>
> John
>
>
Sounds like a ubuntu bug...You might try $HOME which should work as well.

--
-Austin



-- 
John M. Drescher

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Looks like a bug in Ubuntu that needs to be reported, if it has not
been
>> already.  It is standard to use the tilde '~' to stand for the
current
>> user's HOME directory.  This is not, as far as I know, a deficiency
of Wine.
>>
>
> It seems that
>
> xdg-open ~
>
> works from a terminal but not a gnome-2.24 launcher.
>
> I typed the same command in gentoo and got the same result.
>
I know the reason now. In the gnome launcher ~ is already in effect. I tried

nautilus ~

and I got the following error
Could not find "/home/john/~".

So instead of
xdg-open ~/.wine/drive_c

the following should be in the launcher command
xdg-open .wine/drive_c

This works on gentoo and ubuntu intrepid

John