Ran into this again today. I usually launch everything from the commandline, but in preparation for my cebit talk, I started trying to use the GUI and just double- click on apps in Nautilus. (This is Ubuntu 8.10.) Works fine until I try it with the setup.exe in the directory created by the Adobe Photoshop CS2 downloadable trial... at which point it aborts early with a dialog box.
The little script I posted before still works, and lets photoshop's inner installer run. I suppose this script isn't the final word, though, as I think it will prevent switching discss on multidisc installs. - Dan On Fri, Apr 6, 2007 at 10:01 PM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > I *almost* have a great success story to report; the only thing > keeping it from being a success story is the current directory > chosen by Nautilus when double-clicking on .exe files. > > My wife hurt a finger trying to impersonate a Sampsonite Luggage gorilla, > and had to go to a hand doctor. Along the way her hand got x-rayed, > and the doctor handed her a cd-rom with the x-ray pictures on it. > The disc has an autorun.inf on it that should start ViewSel.exe. > I don't know if that's supposed to work with Wine and Nautilus, but > probably doubleclicking on ViewSel.exe does the same thing. > > ViewSel.exe puts up two big buttons: > low res (which launches a web browser on an html file), > and high res (which launches a DICOM viewer). > If you cd to the root of the cd-rom drive and run ViewSel, it works. > If the current directory is anything else, it doesn't work. > > If you start the autorun app via Nautilus, those buttons don't work, > so presumably it sets the current directory to something other than > the root of the drive. To see, I created a wrapper shell script, > ~/bin/mywine, > containing > #!/bin/sh > pwd > /tmp/log > and used "Start with" to launch ViewSel.exe with ~/bin/mywine. > This showed that the current directory was $HOME. > > I had a look at the gnome code to see how it decided, but it was > a bit hard to follow. (See gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch_with_env.) > So I tried a little shell magic. I created a new wrapper shell script > that assumes the argument is a path to a file, and > sets the current directory to the directory containing that file: > > #!/bin/sh > DIR=`dirname "$1"` > DIR=`cd "$DIR"; pwd` > cd "$DIR" > wine "$@" > > That worked better; it let ViewSel.exe launch the DICOM viewer. > > So... I suppose the next step is to look at the debian/ubuntu packages > for wine and see if that little wrapper script could be incorporated > into the default way file browsers start wine? > It sure would be nice if apps that expected the current directory > to behave like this (it's not uncommon!) Just Worked. > - Dan >
