Ubuntu – How to associate native applications with file types in WINE

All you need to associate file of some type to be handled by some app, also by wine app, you can find in folder

~/.local/share/applications  

you will need to open

~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

and find needed type, like this:

image/jpeg=eog.desktop;wine-extension-jpeg.desktop;

as you see there are two files which are relative to this type, if the file stand first it will be the default handler for this type, the other will be shown in "Open with" menu

this is example of .desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=PHP Expert Editor
Exec=wine start C:\\\\Program\\ Files\\\\PHP\\ Expert\\ Editor\\ 4.3\\\\phpxedit.exe z:%f
MimeType=image/jpeg
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/m/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/PHP Expert Editor 4.3
Icon=/home/m/.local/share/icons/10de_phpxedit.0.png

the whole point in the "Exec=" line at the and "z:%f"

Exec=wine start C:\\\\Program\\ Files\\\\PHP\\ Expert\\ Editor\\ 4.3\\\\phpxedit.exe z:%f

if you don't have this line you should have an error

Can not open file "/home/...."

while trying to open some file with your app, because of wine paths are like windows disks and to open your file, for example "/home/picture.jpg" in wine you should use path "z:/home/picture.jpg"

The Wine page has some detail on this.

First you need winepath to translate the path. This will make the script and give it permission to run:

mkdir -p ~/bin/
echo '#!/bin/sh' > ~/bin/run_linx_program
echo '$1 "`wine winepath -u "$2"`"' >> ~/bin/run_linx_program
chmod a+x ~/bin/run_linx_program

Then you'd save something like this to a file called association.reg:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi]
@="AVIfile"
"Content Type"="video/x-msvideo"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="/bin/sh run_linx_program mplayer \"%1\""

Then run regedit association.reg to add the association to Wine's registry.

Note: this is adapted from the Wine page. I got the mime-type from within Linux (file --mime-type an_avi.avi). Wine may treat AVI files differently.