[SOLVED] Running wine prog from Openbox menu

Hello everyone. I was wondering if there's a way to run a program installed through wine from the openbox menu? The problem I'm having is that you have to be in the directory with the .exe in order to run it properly. I can run it fine from the terminal but not openbox.
I've tried the suggestions here: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24893
Any ideas?
Last edited by Somnus (2013-12-28 01:37:39)

Probably the best formal way to do this is by creating a .desktop file for your Wine application and putting it in the ~/.local/share/applications directory.
In this file you would specify a Path key to change to the .exe directory, and then the Exec key to run: wine /path/name.exe etc
In the Openbox menu you'd then make an entry which runs a command - like xdg-open - which can launch the .desktop file.
(My own launcher fyr can do this, for example, but there are others.)
Using .desktop files is the "modern" way to launch applications!

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