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  • gr3qtoLinux MintMint (noob) default apps with wine
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    3 months ago

    Not really the easy way, but this is how you can make your wine application show up in Preferred Applications.

    You probably don’t have a .desktop file for you wine app. Go to /usr/share/application and find one entry that also shows up in your Preferred Applications->PDF list. Open that entry with a text editor: that’s how your new entry should look like (I recommend looking at /usr/share/applications/xreader.desktop in particular). You must have the MimeType field for Preferred Applications

    Create your new pdfxchange.desktop file and place it into ~/.local/share/applications so it will be picked up by the OS and it should show up in your Preferred Applications list.

    The only thing you need to figure out yourself how to make pdfxchange open a file from the command line, you need to put that into the Exec= field.

    For you it might be something like this: Exec=env WINEPREFIX="YOUR_PDFEXCHANGE_WINE_PREFIX" wine "YOUR_PDFEXCHANGE_WINE_PREFIX/drive_c/path/to/pdfxchange.exe" Z:%f

    Try it in the terminal (without Exec=) until it works. %f is the file you want to open.






  • I didn’t even know Lemmy existed until last week (when I specifically searched for a Reddit alternative) even though I heard about Mastodon.

    And it might be confusing to decide where you need to register and what’s the difference without reading up how the Fediverse works. Most people don’t care about that.

    Also if they are based on the same technology why I can’t use a Mastodon account to login/interact with Lemmy (conveniently)

    I guess if we ever have Nomadic identities most of the above could be solved? Except that Lemmy is still almost completely unknown for most of the people.