On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ezekiel000 <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:> I have been trying to add a launcher to the gnome menu for some of my wine
games, but I have found that when I add them to the menu the games complain
about missing files, I assume because it is looking for the rest of the game
files in the directory that the launcher is in. This doesn't happen when I
run the same command within the games directory they work fine.
> I used to have this problem with Sam & Max Season One but I got round
this by using this command:
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/ezekiel/.wine" wine
"C:\\windows\\profiles\\ezekiel\\My Documents\\Games\\Sam and Max - Season
One\\Episode 1 - Culture Shock Data\\SamMax101.exe"
> instead of just:
> wine "/home/ezekiel/Games/Sam and Max - Season One/Episode 1 - Culture
Shock/SamMax101.exe
> The first works from the menu but the second only works from within the
Culture Shock directory.
> But I tried the same thing with real myst but it didn't work, the new
command:
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/ezekiel/.wine"
/home/ezekiel/Games/realMYST/wine/wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\ezekiel\\My
Documents\\Games\\realMYST\\RealMYST.exe"
> Old command:
> /home/ezekiel/Games/realMYST/wine/wine ./RealMYST.exe
> (A small note I am using a local version of wine because real myst
doesn't work with the latest version of wine but Sam & Max doesn't
work with the stable version)
> Both the commands don't work unless I run them from a terminal within
the real myst directory.
>
> Can anyone help?
You need to make sure the 'set working directory' option is set to the
game directory.
Also, always use the windows path, not Unix path. Some programs get
confused by a wrong path.
--
-Austin