Adding Frets On Fire to the Menu

[ep2011]

First of all, I want to say I've been trying to see why this isn't working for awhile, i've been trying and it hasn't been working.

I downloaded Frets on Fire and put it in my home folder as ./FretsOnFIre

Now, when I make the file /usr/share/applications/Frets-on-fire.desktop I put the following in it

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Frets On Fire
Comment=A Game similar to Guitar Hero
Exec=/home/eric/.FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire
Icon=/home/eric/.FretsOnFire/data/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Game;

The Icon shows up okay, but when I click on it, nothing happens.

When I type cd /home/eric/.FretsOnFire/ && ./FretsOnFire it works perfectly... I think I know what it is, I think the command Exec=/home/eric/.FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire wants to go to FretsOnFire.bin, but I need it to just go to FretsOnFire... Any ideas on this?

Edit: it isnt that ^^. I just made copied the file as FoF and changed it to Exec=/home/eric/.FretsOnFire/FoF and it still doesnt work.

[DoktorSeven]

Probably needs to be inside the directory when you execute the program. Make a launcher somewhere with the following:


#!/bin/bash

cd /home/eric/.FretsOnFire
./FretsOnFire


Make it executable (either by its properties in the file browser or chmod 755 nameoflauncher from the Terminal).

Then have the desktop entry point to the launcher (the Exec= line).

[RomeReactor]

Hi. You can also change Exec=/home/eric/.FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire to Exec=sh -c "cd /home/eric/.FretsOnFire && ./FretsOnFire".

[ep2011]

Worked perfectly, thanks. It also worked for Stepmania (With a little tweaking as well).

[douradinhos]

tks, works great for me too:KS