Ubuntu – Set Wine application icons in Cinnamon or Gnome3

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In the above screenshot you can see that I am using a Wine application, Nemo file browser & Firefox, however, I want to use a specific icon for this Wine application too! To be precise I am using PDF Xchange viewer & I want to use its native Windows icon in Cinnamon too!

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How can I do that?

Best Answer

Create your icon as a png file
copy an application file from

/usr/share/applications
open it in a text editor
customize it.

You could just copy my template blow, also:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Your App
Comment=Comments shown as tooltip
Exec= wine /path/to/executable
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain; 
Categories=Wine;Applications;

Propose:

You're icon should be placed on: /usr/share/icons/ownicons

create this directory with

sudo mkdir /usr/share/myicons/
sudo chown yourusername:yourusername /usr/share/myicons/

Look at Gnome Desktop entry specification for more information.

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Ubuntu – How to set a wine program (ex. Foxit Reader for Windows) as the default program

I solved the problem myself. Here's how:

Step 1: Create script

I followed the procedure in the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine page:

gedit ~/.wine/Foxit5

Now paste the following script in it, save and close gedit. If you changed the installation path, modify the 2nd line accordingly.

#!/bin/sh

QUICKPARLOCATION="c:\\Program Files\\Foxit Software\\Foxit Reader\\Foxit Reader.exe"
PARAM=`winepath -w "$*"`
wine "$QUICKPARLOCATION" "$PARAM"
exit 0

Make sure the file is executable with this command.

chmod +x ~/.wine/Foxit5

Step 2: Create .desktop file

Info from this site: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1863021

cd to the directory /usr/share/applications
use 'grep -i foxit *' this will search for the name foxit ignoring case.
if it's not there make one from one of the smaller ones.
I used sol.destop and copied it to my own fake app.
Don't forget the %f, this shows that the application can be passed a file name, it has to be there to show up in the list.

sudo cp sol.desktop foxit.destop

gksudo gedit foxit.desktop

foxit.desktop Code: (I created an icon and saved it in the .icons folder)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Foxit Reader 5
Comment=Read and annotate pdf files
Exec=~/.wine/Foxit5 %f
Icon=~/.icons/Foxit.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Office;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=Foxit
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=foxit reader
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=Zwischenlager
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.2.1
StartupNotify=true
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
X-Osso-Service=org.gnome.Games.AisleRiot
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=aisleriot

Step 3: Set as default

Open file manager and find any pdf file. Click properties. Open with. Show all. Choose Foxit Reader

That's it! Well sort of… This method works only if Foxit reader 4 is not running. If it is a "file not found" error pops up.

EDIT: This methods works fully with Foxit Reader 5 but you would need to install wine 1.5 for this version to work. Visit http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu to do so.

Ubuntu – Open file using custom command: how to specify the file in cmd line

Found blog entries about the same problem for Foxit reader and for PDF-XChange Viewer. None of them worked for me. So I edited them and got one tailored for my case:

#!/bin/bash  
Filename="z:${1//\//\\}"
wine "C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer\PDFXCview.exe" $Filename

Save this bash script and open pdf using this script. Now double click pdf files will open them using PDF-XChange Viewer.

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