Thread: Trouble associating .bmp files with mspaint in wine

i running kubuntu 11.10 , updated of posting.

installed wine , mspaint wine, mspaint works great, , save save , open bmp files. trouble comes when attempt associate bmp files mspaint. command line opening bmp files following:

code:

wine mspaint %f

when double click on hello.bmp (located @ /home/brandon/desktop) pop window says:

code:

z:\home\brandon\documents\hello.bmp not found

so tried following in terminal:

terminal:

code:

wine mspaint /home/brandon/desktop/hello.bmp

output:

code:

z:\home\brandon\hello.bmp not found

terminal:

code:

wine mspaint '""/home/brandon/desktop/hello.bmp""'

output:

code:

z:\home\brandon\""\home\brandon\desktop\hello.bmp" contians invalid path

terminal:

code:

wine mspaint \\home\\brandon\\desktop\\hello.bmp

works fine.

ideas on possibly doing wrong?

thanks!
brandon

figured out! open command this:

code:

env wineprefix="/home/brandon/.wine" wine start /progidopen bitmap %f

and had add registry keys found out how here:

http://www.jrnguyen.com/2009/11/16/w...in-linux-wine/

anyway though!

brandon

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