Hi Kirrus Kirrus wrote: > Hi all, > > 2) Wine and Launchers > I've installed a program called BibleWorks 4.0, using Wine. It seems to be > working, but I can't create a shortcut to it. Here's the problem: > It's accessible at: > /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe > If I open the terminal, go to the "BibleWorks 4.0" directory and then type > "wine bworks95.exe" everything runs perfectly. If, however, I type "wine > /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BibleWorks\ 4.0/bworks95.exe" - > there's a problem. > I think it does begin to launch BibleWorks, but the first thing BibleWorks > does is open a small window claiming not to be able to find the registration > files, and then refusing to go further. > The upshot of this is that I don't know how to create a shortcut/launcher to > let me launch it without having to go through the whole palava of > open-terminal/cd-to-directory/launch-by-hand. > Again not a big deal, but if there's something obvious I'm missing... > (Kirrus - I thought, could make a shell script to do the cd etc.. but there's > got to be a better solution...) >
Have you tried: wine "/home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe" i.e. the path and executable within quotations? > 3) mp3 players. > When I used to use Windows, Media Player had this function where you could > change the rate at which you could play back mp3 - eg x1 (ie normal speed), > x2 (ie double speed), x1.5, x1.8, etc, etc. I used to use this quite often to > listen to mp3s of talks and sermons - I find I can often cope with listening > at a spead of about x1.5 or x1.8. > I'd like to regain this feature. I guess I could try installing Media Player > under Wine. But I feel like there must be an Open Source solution - and > (philosophically!) I'd be more comfortable going the Open Source route. > I've done some Googling, and searching of Synaptic Package Manager, but to no > available. > Again, not a big deal, but if you have any tips, they would be greatly > received... > (Kirrus - I've recommended he use Audacity for the short-term, though its not > the best for this.) > mplayer can do this, certainly: mplayer file.mp3 -speed 1.5 HTH -- Steve Garton www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
