Favorite on Launcher

[Grizzly]

01 March 2021  at 16:33, Colin Law wrote:
Re: Favorite on Launcher (at least in part)

>On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 15:49, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> 01 March 2021  at 13:47, Colin Law wrote:
>> Re: Favorite on Launcher (at least in part)
>>
>> >On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 15:23, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
>> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> In Bionic I just made a app.desktop file, put it in
>>
>> >> .local\share\applications
>>
>> >That is the right place, except that it is forward slashes of course.
>>
>> Jumping between Windows & Ubuntu will do that to you ;-)
>>
>> >> but even then nothing shows on the launcher
>>
>> >Where exactly do you expect it to appear?
>>
>> Below the last pinned app (VLC) in the launcher
>>
>> >If you hit the Win key (or click Activities) and search for it does it find
>> >it?  If so you can pin it to the start menu from there.
>>
>> I can find wine but not the app (that wine would run)
>>
>> >Have you made it executable?
>>
>> Yes
>
>It won't automatically appear in the launcher, you have to pin it there.

>It ought to find it if you search for the file name, I think.

The app.desktop file is found on a search, sometimes as "App" and sometimes as 
"app.desktop file" it depends on small changes in the app.desktop, I managed to 
get it to pin BUT

the app will not run from the favorite, nor will it run from terminal, it 
responds with "dir or file not found" I can navigate to the app.exe in :-

.wine/dosdevices/d:/mydir/app/app.exe
or
.wine32/dosdevices/d:/mydir/app/app.exe
or
media/user/seconddrive/mydir/app/app.exe
or
Physical_drive/mydir/app/app.exe (whic is probably the same as above)

Physical_drive is added in winecfg as D:

>I had not paid attention to the fact that it is a Wine app.  

>If you make a shortcut for a normal app does it work ok? 

Normal apps do pin

>You could post the file here and we could try it.

this is the original app.desktop that has worked on 16.04 & 18.04

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Pegasus
Comment=Pegasus Mail
Exec=wine D:/mydir/Mail/winpm-32.exe -i myuser -ROAM -O
Icon=/media/nix_user/second_drive/myuser/Mail/Image2.png
StartupWMClass=winpm-32.exe 
StartupNotify=true
Name[en_GB]=Pegasus

I have tried various other cmd lines for the Exec=