wine in ubuntu on i3

answered 2013-12-01 09:58:02 +0000

geo909
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updated 2013-12-02 16:52:21 +0000

EDIT: I added Answer 2, check that one first.

Answer 1

I don't have wine so I haven't tried it, but the following should work. Not sure if there's a simpler way. For every windows program appname.exe you need to run, create a file appname like so:

#!/bin/bash 
# File appname
wine "C:\Program Files\appname\appname.exe"

Of course, you should make sure that you put the correct path name to your appname.exe.. Then move this newly created file to /usr/bin:

sudo mv appname /usr/bin

Now appname should appear in dmenu. In fact you should be able to run any script or manually installed program from dmenu this way. Furthermore this should give a command appname in the terminal, too.

Answer 2

Sorry, this is also not tested, but I just read the following lines in ~/.i3/config:

# There also is the (new) i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays applications
# shipping a .desktop file. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that
# installed.
# bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop

Unless I'm missing something, the above suggests that if wine creates menu items automatically (again, I don't know), you should be able to access them from i3-dmenu-desktop.

So, do the following.

• sudo apt-get install i3-dmenu-desktop in case this is not installed by default in ubuntu; I don't have ubuntu, so I don't know
• Fire up dmenu with mod+d and run i3-dmenu-desktop; an identical-looking dmenu will appear on the top bar

• Start typing the name of your windows application. If it doesn't appear, forget about this answer. If it appears, then go back to your ~/.i3/config, comment the line about dmenu_run and uncomment the line about i3-dmenu-desktop. That is, your config file should now read:

  # start dmenu (a program launcher)
  # bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run
  # There also is the (new) i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays 
  # shipping a .desktop file. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that
  # installed.
  bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop
  

If that works and you want to further tweak things around, there's a program called j4-dmenu-desktop which claims to do the same thigs as i3-dmenu-desktop but much faster.