[xubuntu-users] Wine is not in Menu

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Fri Jul 22 23:18:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:47:43 -0700, Lee Gold wrote:
>Using Xubuntu 16.04. I installed Wine but it is not in the menu. How do
>I fix this?

What should it be good for, to have a menu entry for wine? AFAIK wine isn't a
program or virtual machine you could launch without a windows app.

IIRC you need to launch a windows executable by wine
  wine "c:\path\to\the_app_name.exe"

To get this as a menu entry for all users, create a desktop file in
  /usr/share/applications/
name it
  the_app_name.desktop

Content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Exec=wine "c:\path\to\the_app_name.exe"
Icon=icon_of_app.exe
Name=the_app_name
Categories=Some_that_fits_1;Some_that_fits_2;

Take a look at other desktop files, to learn more about those files.

Regards,
Ralf




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