How to create a panel icon for a hidden wine app?

[Stephen Partington]

The same way you would make an icon for a terminal command. Just Google
shortcut ubuntu terminal command or something similar.
On Jan 15, 2015 5:41 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> What is the procedure to create a panel icon for a wine app that does not
> show up in the Application launcher?  And how can I launch the app
> without having to see all the garbage that shows up when I start the app
> from the command line?
>
> Today, I installed Paint Shop Pro (an excellent windoze photo editor that
> runs perfectly under wine) by just installing the CD and clicking on
> 'setup.exe'.  It installed perfectly and showed up immediately under the
> launcher wine tab. Then a right-click on the app and I could add it to
> panel.
>
> But when I tried to do the same thing with Pagemaker, it installed here:
> /home/joe/.wine/drive_c/PM6/ and I can start it with this:
> $ wine PM6.EXE and it runs okay (not great, but somewhat) but all of this
> appears in the terminal window (and more messages appear while I am
> trying to use it).
>
> How can I launch it from the panel instead and avoid all these garbage
> messages?
>
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 32
> fixme:font:get_nearest_charset returning DEFAULT_CHARSET
> face->fs.fsCsb[0] = 00000000 file =
> L"/home/joe/.wine/dosdevices/c:/PM6/aldfonte.fon"
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 32
> fixme:font:get_nearest_charset returning DEFAULT_CHARSET
> face->fs.fsCsb[0] = 00000000 file =
> L"/home/joe/.wine/dosdevices/c:/PM6/aldfonte.fon"
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 32
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 255
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 32
> fixme:font:get_nearest_charset returning DEFAULT_CHARSET
> face->fs.fsCsb[0] = 00000000 file =
> L"/home/joe/.wine/dosdevices/c:/PM6/aldfonte.fon"
> fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
> fixme:font:freetype_SelectFont Untranslated charset 32
> fixme:font:get_nearest_charset returning DEFAULT_CHARSET
> face->fs.fsCsb[0] = 00000000 file =
> L"/home/joe/.wine/dosdevices/c:/PM6/aldfonte.fon"
> fixme:ole:RemUnknown_QueryInterface No interface for iid
> {00000019-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
>
>
>
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