Linux, Wine and shortcuts

[hello_hello]

Any Linux experts out there?

I'm new to Linux but I've been experimenting with Wine and finally had a reasonable amount of success running the Windows programs I'd like to keep using for the moment.
Creating start menu shortcuts was a challenge initially, but I seem to have it sorted now with one exception. The desktop files I've created don't work when added to the file manager's sendto folder because the file path looks like a command to most programs. The same applies to using the "open with" menu.

Here's a typical desktop file (created manually):

[Desktop Entry]
Name=MPC-HC
Comment=
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Player;
Icon=/home/Me/.local/share/icons/MPC-HC.png
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64" wine "/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64/drive_c/Program Files/MPC-HC/mpc-hc64.exe" %f

and here's the error message MPC-HC displays when opening a file with sendto:

Unrecognised switch(es) found in command line string:

C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe /media/NVME1/video.mkv

I've created a drive labelled "M" in Wine with the target "/media", so I'm wondering if there's a way to turn %f into windows-speak so the result would be this instead.

C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe M:\NVME1\video.mkv

Cheers.

PS Desktop files created by PlayOnLinux work fine as sendto items, but PlayOnLinux is obviously taking care of the translation. The desktop file it created for MPC-HC (I've modified it a little) looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MPC-HC
Comment=PlayOnLinux
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "MPC-HC" %F
Icon=/home/Me/.PlayOnLinux//icones/full_size/MPC-HC
StartupWMClass=mpc-hc64.exe
Categories=AudioVideo;Player;

Cheers.

[jones1913]

I had the same problem recently and found a solution in a forum:
The 'winepath' tool can be used to convert path names between windows and unix format.

Try this:
Exec=env sh -c "winepath -w -0 %F | WINEPREFIX='/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64' xargs -0 wine '/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64/drive_c/Program Files/MPC-HC/mpc-hc64.exe'"

[hello_hello]

Perfect! Thank you.

I'd done a fair bit of searching and assumed for it to work correctly 'winepath' would need to be involved, but I couldn't work out how to implement it in a shortcut.
I don't know why the WineHQ site doesn't provide instructions for creating shortcuts this way.

Cheers.

[hello_hello]

I thought I'd add the following in case it helps someone. There was one program that wouldn't behave itself when using the method above (AvsPmod), but adding the following in red fixed it. Why it wouldn't work in the first place and why the following does, I'm not sure yet, but adding the red text for shortcuts that were already working as sendto items didn't seem to have an adverse effect on them.

Exec=env sh -c "winepath -w -0 %F | WINEPREFIX='/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64' xargs -0 wine start /Unix '/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64/drive_c/Program Files/AvsPmod/AvsPmod.exe'"

[microchip8]

So you installed Linux so you can use Windows programs again? What's the point? :S

[hello_hello]

So you installed Linux so you can use Windows programs again? What's the point? :S

No Windows.
No Microsoft.

I've been replacing Windows programs with native Linux alternatives where I can, but there's some programs I'm used to and don't want to give up (yet), or I haven't found a Linux alternative I like.