How to Create Wine desktop launcher

This tutorial will explain how to Create working Wine desktop launcher.


Reasons for creating Wine desktop launcher


◦Some games launcher exe files just don’t work right, and you have to use the main exe file to get the program to run.

◦Wine is picky it wants to be in the directory the file is in when you run the exe. Normal menu items point to the program using the path, i.e. /home/ed/.wine/la la la .exe. That won’t cut it.

So, you have to create a script that will change to the proper directory, then run the right file. Here is how you do that. We are going to create a launcher for World of Warcraft.


Open the terminal

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       gksudo gedit
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copy the following lines

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     #!/bin/bash

     cd ~/.wine/drive_c/World\ of\ Warcraft/

      wine Wow.exe -opengl
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Save the file as wowlauncher.sh under /bin (you can use the location which is easy for you to remember)

Close the file

Now you need to give execute permissions for your script

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      chmod a+x /bin/wowlauncher.sh

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Create desktop launcher

If you want to Create desktop launcher right click on the desktop and choose Create Launcher.

Under Name, type World of Warcraft .

Under Command, type /bin/wowlauncher.sh

Enter Comment

Finally Click OK.

You can create which ever launcher you want with the same procedure

If you want to create fallout2 launcher use the following script

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         #!/bin/bash

         cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Interplay/Fallout\ 2

           wine FALLOUT2.exe
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