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New user: launch crossover

Hi,

I have just downloaded crossover for linux to test it for 14 days. The goal is to setup some applications
like Outlook 2007, crontrol M, etc on my gentoo desktop.

I have successfully setup crossover on my gentoo, but I d'ont know how to run it because I am not using
any of gnome and kde. My WM is awesome, so I don't have any menu to launch it.

Can you help me ?

I'm using FVWM window manager under Fedora 15, and also under ancient Fedora 1. I created trivial command-line launch scripts for PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc., and placed them in my ~/bin directory in my execution path. Here's a copy of the current PowerPoint launch script as an example:


#!/bin/csh -f
set cmd = 'POWERPNT.EXE "'$*:q'"'
exec /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxrun --command "$cmd"

The extra gibberish with the cmd variable is to try to gracefully handle file names with embedded blanks. The other wrapper scripts just reference the other EXE files in the bottle, such as WINWORD.EXE, EXCEL.EXE, etc.

Hope this helps...

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