doubleclick on .exe starts all programs in wrong directory

[Kenobi]

Binary package hint: wine

It is a general problem of Ubuntu - Wine. Whenever you doubleclick a .exe in dolphin, the associated wine starts the program with the default directory "/home/username/". Result: The app can't find its other files and crashes.

When you take the console and type: "wine mplayer.exe", it is started in the actual directory we are in and it runs fine.

It seems a simple "cd" command is missing in the ubuntu - wine - starter. Should be fixable - with great results for 1000s of programs.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

The best solution to this may be changing from the standard wine binary to a wrapper script that sets the working directory properly. Integrating the winefix program that popped up on the forums a while back could work here.

[Kenobi (kazmirzak)]

Yeah. Winefix seems to work. But that is only a workaround, not a fix.

An additional line in *.desktop - files like "StartInBinaryPath=True" should be interpreted. Is this possible for Ubuntu developers?

[Vincent Povirk (madewokherd)]

This has been fixed in Wine since 0.9.60.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Fixed in Intrepid. Hopefully it will be backported to hardy-backports soon.