On Monday 29 January 2007 12:50, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Lei Zhang wrote: > > Setting the Exec= line in a .desktop file to: WINEPREFIX=foo wine bar > > worked in KDE. In Gnome, it works if "run from the terminal" is set. > > > > Unfortunately the Freedesktop spec for desktop entries does not > > specify a way to add environment variables. So yes, it looks like > > we'll need a wrapper script, or perhaps add a --prefix option to Wine? > > or change the exec line to: > /bin/sh -i -c "WINEPREFIX=foo wine"
Instead, wouldn't /bin/sh -i -c "WINEPREFIX=foo exec wine" also properly dispose of the now useless copy of the shell? Cheers, Kuba