shortcut for wine programs

[mc4man]

Possibly notepad isn't the best example, though I don't use Lubuntu so maybe things are different

Typically wine installs a wine wrapper script in /usr/bin for notepad so it can be started like any other binary, in this case just
notepad
So a simple desktop launcher would be

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=wine-notepad
Name=notepad
Exec=notepad
StartupNotify=true

Noting that the launcher (.desktop) must be set to execute in permissions

For 'normal' installed .exes you can create launchers with several different Exec= lines, 2 examples here with same .exe
The only difference would be seen on something like Unity where the 2nd one produces the correct icon in the launcher, not a factor here.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DVD Decrypter
Exec=wine "C:\Program Files\DVD Decrypter\DVDDecrypter.exe"
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/doug/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/DVD Decrypter
Icon=/home/doug/.local/share/icons/48e9_dvddecrypter.0.png

or

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DVD Decrypter
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/doug/.wine" wine C:\\\\Program\\ Files\\\\DVD\\ Decrypter\\\\DVDDecrypter.exe
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/doug/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/DVD Decrypter
Icon=/home/doug/.local/share/icons/48e9_dvddecrypter.0.png

To put some perspective I included the linux path in a Path= line, can be in the .desktop

As far as notepad - you could test if the wrapper script is working by simply using notepad in a terminal or run dialog (Alt+f2 here

[Cnaeus]

Thank you Pc4Man, this is a very thorough guide but the shortcut still wont react. So I tried to run the "exec" lines (both of them, many times) in terminal, but it returned an error message:

wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Program Files\MyFolder\MyFile.exe

Ok, so I experimented a bit: installed a windows program, and pasted the exec line here. Well, it was frightening:

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/myusername/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/myusername/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\\ Menu/Programs/MyFile/MyFile.lnk

[Morbius1]

So this does not work?

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/myusername/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\notepad.exe"

Change "C:\Program Files\notepad.exe" to whatever the correct path is to the exe.

[Cnaeus]

It didn't work, but this time it gave an error message at least:

Failed to change to directory '/home/myusername/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/MyProgram/MyProgram.exe' (Not a directory)

No idea what it means... the path is all right, that is for sure.

[mc4man]

Then just use the method shown at the bottom of post 8, as in
Exec=wine 'exact path to exe'
So to get that AND test that the .exe works, open your file browser and navigate to the .exe
Then open a terminal, type in wine, hit the spacebar and then drag & drop your .exe into the terminal
That's your exact path, you can copy it out into your launcher (.desktop

To test the .exe then just press enter in terminal. If it runs the it will also run from the launcher