Placing a shortcut is it possible ??

[zedan85]

I just installed wine and using that i ran notepad++ and it works.
Now I ran the notepad++.exe through console. IS there a way i could make a shortcut of it and place it in the Activities section ?? and how would i configure .txt files to open by default using tha shortcut ???

[atreyu]

Is this for Gnome 3 or what?

You can try this: create file and call it notepad.desktop, and put it in the directory /usr/share/applications/

Put the following in the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Wine Notepad
Comment=Text Editor
Exec=wine notepad
Icon=notepad
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-Wine;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18

You many need to do some things like change the path to the Icon or maybe change the wine command itself.

You can then try and validate the file to see if Gnome will acknowledge it:

desktop-file-validate /usr/share/applications/notepad.desktop

To test, just log out of Gnome and log back in.

Note: you can always copy the .desktop file to your desktop and try it there, too (if older Gnome, that is):