Plasma + Wine - Desktop icons for windows apps not working?

[duby2291]

Pretty much as the title says, Native apps start fine from the desktop icon, but apps running from wine don't start the app. If I type out the full path name on a terminal though the app starts just fine. Any idea's why native apps start fine, but wine apps don't?

[duby2291]

Just an an update - I got Steam installed last night and it is displaying the same symptoms with native games and games played with Proton. Native games start just fine by simply clicking on them, but games started with Proton only start in a terminal.

[duby2291]

Here's another update - If I right-click on any .desktop file and select "Create Launcher on the Panel", it opens an error dialog (which won't allow me to highlight text in it, fucking retarded)....

"Failed to add a plugin to the panel - GDbus.Error:org.Freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name Org.xfce.Panel was not provided by any.service files.

The thing is I'm not using xfce, I'm using plasma, but I must have installed some of xfce dependencies which is overriding Plasma dependencies maybe?

[duby2291]

So here's another update, I been puttsing around with use flags and rebuilding things and just playing around with getting my dependencies as low as possible. But this problem still persists. I have no clue at all why simply clicking on a .desktop file won't start a windows app running with wine. I'm stumped.

Anyway, I did find a sort of solution in the meantime. In Plasma, if I right click on a .desktop file and select Properties, it opens a dialog box with three tabs. Selecting the third tab called Application allows me to edit the Command field. which needs to be blanked out and replace with "wine /path/to/game/game.exe, and then the Work path field needs to be blanked out. Then double clicking on the .desktop file starts the windows app properly. I have no idea why the default configuration doesn't work, but a full path works fine.

[Chiitoo]

Hm. Seems like I forgot to reply to this the first time I noticed it...

I would probably have suggested editing the paths, which you already have done, but what is it that the files have in them before editing it?

I might open one of them in a text editor, and copy the contents here.