How to get a wine program added as as open with

[hairybiker]

OK have searched around and can't find a solution.
I have QuickPar installed under wine. On Mate it just worked and added itself to the open with menu, but on Cinnamon it doesn't.

I have tried adding a custom launcher, but it launches QP but not with the file selected.

[Flemur]

On Mate it just worked and added itself to the open with menu, but on Cinnamon it doesn't.

Hmmm.

If you don't find a semi-automatic solution, below is how I run wine programs compatible with "Open with" on file browsers.

This is an executable file, ~/bin/iview, which passes parameters (i.e. file names) :

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 #!/bin/sh

QUICKPARLOCATION="c:\\pgms\\IrfanView\\i_view32.exe"
PARAM=`winepath -w "$*" 2>/dev/null`
wine "$QUICKPARLOCATION" "$PARAM" &
exit 0

In file browser, "Open with" -> iview
Command line: $ iview file.jpg

Obviously, change your QUICKPARLOCATION= to the right .exe
The quotes should handle the spaces in "Program Files" (I install under 'pgms' instead).

[hairybiker]

Cheers that works.

Bit of a faff compared to Mate though.
The QuickPar config sets itself up to associate with par/2 & md5 files, but it doesn't seem to be getting passed to nemo.