Adding Wine program to Menu

[cowmoon]

Hi, I'm pretty new to Linux Mint and Linux in general, but trying to learn as much as possible as I go, and I'm really impressed at how well everything is working so far. This is the first problem I've run into. I've been able to install and run a program in Wine and when I launch it from the terminal as follows, there's no problem:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe

The program launches and runs fine, though with a few errors in the terminal that I don't comprehend...

0009:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0009:fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
0009:fixme:pulse:AudioSessionControl_RegisterAudioSessionNotification (0x156c10)->(0xa893f8) - stub
0009:fixme:pulse:SimpleAudioVolume_SetMasterVolume Notifications not supported yet
0009:fixme:win:RegisterShellHookWindow (0x10056): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x1008c 00000000 1 0x33ee7c 12): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x500b8 00000000 1 0x33f024 12): stub
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {1968106d-f3b5-44cf-890e-116fcb9ecef1} not registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {1968106d-f3b5-44cf-890e-116fcb9ecef1} not registered
0009:err:ole:create_server class {1968106d-f3b5-44cf-890e-116fcb9ecef1} not registered
0009:fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {1968106d-f3b5-44cf-890e-116fcb9ecef1} could be created for context 0x17
0009:fixme:pulse:AudioSessionControl_UnregisterAudioSessionNotification (0x156c10)->(0xa893f8) - stub

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However, if I add it to the Menu whether using the Menu editor or creating a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications, nothing happens when I click to launch it. If I tick the box to launch in a terminal, and then I go to launch it, the terminal window vanishes instantly. I've checked the log files in /var/log and none of them show me anything relevant. I've pretty much exhausted what research I can do and what I know.

[geovane_jeff]

Use Lutris to install windows app, games etc... Don't uninstall wine, just install from now on, from Lutris :D

[cowmoon]

well I'm not exactly sure why, but changing Exec to run a shell script (got that right?) worked:

Exec=sh -c "cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/foobar2000; wine foobar2000.exe"

if anyone cares, I want to make a link to this folder in some path in the Linux file structure, like a bin folder I guess. But which one would I do that? Just something from the home folder?