Right Click run exe with Wine

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 16:41, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 10 January 2019  at 14:09, Colin Law wrote:
> Re: Right Click run exe with Wine (at least in part)
>
> >Yes, I see you are right.  OK, we have to it the hard way then.
>
> Seems the easy(er) way, more used to getting my hands dirty inside than relying
> on the GUI
>
> >Create a file called wine.desktop in the folder
> >.local/share/applications and in there put
>
> >[Desktop Entry]
> >Name=Wine
> >Comment=Run Windows Applications
> >Exec=wine
> >Terminal=false
> >Icon=wine
> >Type=Application
> >Categories=Utility;
> >NoDisplay=true
>
> >In that same folder should be a file mimeapps.list.  If it already has
> >a section [Default Applications] in it then add to the end of that
> >section
> >application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop
> >If the file is empty (as it may well be) then put in there
> >[Default Applications]
> >application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop
>
> >Now wine should be the default app for .exe files.
>
> I'll have a play later, will that also add a (pointless) entry to the launcher?

It won't automatically add it to the launcher.  It may make it
available via the Super key, not sure.

Colin