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Hello I have some problem making shortcuts for 2 games to my Application/games menu. The menu you can edit by writing "alacarte" in the terminal. So this is how I ...
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    Some help with menu edit!

    Hello I have some problem making shortcuts for 2 games to my Application/games menu.
    The menu you can edit by writing "alacarte" in the terminal.

    So this is how I do, I have 1 game, its a Linux client of the game Tibia, ive unpacked it and its in a folder inside my home folder. If I double click on either Tibia or StartTibia.sh the game starts without any trouble, but if I open alacarte and browse to that location and choose either Tibia or StartTibia.sh and then click on the new item in the Game menu nothing opens...

    Here is the location I browse to:
    /home/som99/Spel/Tibia/StartTibia.sh

    I can't figure out how to do this any help would be appriciated!

    The next problem is with a windows game instaleld with wine, if i drag the excisting shortcut file to the panelbar I get the icon there and can just click it and start it without any trouble, but I want it to be inside the applications/games menu. So I go to the alacarte editor and browse to the main directory of the file inside /home/som99/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/gamename/game.exe and press ok but when I try to start it it asks for its main files located at Z:\home\som99 the funny thing is that it starts if I move all files inside the games main folder to \home without putting them in any folder :/

    So I tryed to write the following as is written in the working shortcut in wine:
    wine "C:\Program Files\Tibia\game.exe" and I get the same error as it somehow think that the locations is home\som99 :S
    Also adding in propeties of the new shortcut item teh following:
    "/home/som99/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/game" wine game.exe
    I get this error while trying to start it:
    Failed to execute child process "/home/som99/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/game" (Permission denied)

    I have put permission on the folders but same result

    Anyone know how to fix any of these 2 problems and I would be forever in debt!
    As I am going to make alot of shortcuts to many programs both trough wine and games ive unpacked I would like to know how to do this.

    I might add that if I open the terminal and write:
    cd /home/som99/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/game
    to get to the folder then writes:
    wine game.exe
    Then the game starts without any trouble :S
    I can't seem to figure this one out :/


    Please help me!

    //som99

    Edit: It has been allmost 10 hours and no reply :/ I hope someone can help me ive tryed everything.
    Last edited by som99; 01-16-2009 at 07:51 AM. Reason: More attractive title.

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    Ok I have waited 5 day for real can´t anyone help me?

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    Check StartTibia.sh permissions. It should be executable in order to run.
    Code:
    ls -la
    should be show somes "x" like drwxr-xr-x. If it is like -rw-r--r-- (without any x) than you must change the permission.
    You can also do it by right clicking the file in the file manager.

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