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I can launch a Windows program installed through Wine by double clicking on the executable file. I added an entry for
the program in Fluxbox menu with the code:

[exec] (ApplicationName) {/path/to/program}

However, the program cannot be launch from the Fluxbox menu. Can anyone help?

Try: wine /path/to/program

Thank you. Changing the notation for the path/ to/ program in my particular problem from /Program Files/KeePass Password Safe/ to /Program\ Files/KeePass\ Password\ Safe/ solved the problem. I did not know that Linux does not recognize the space between the file name.

After some searching I now learn that if you have files with spaces or special characters in their names, you have two ways of dealing with them: quoting the file name or escaping the confusing characters.

< Method 1: quoting >

This is very straightforward: put the file name in single quotes ( ' ) so spaces or special characters won't bother you anymore:




< Method 2: escaping >

Another way to deal with special characters in a file name is to escape the characters. You put a backslash ( \ ) in front of the special character or space. This makes the bash shell treat the special character like a normal character:

h2t wrote:I did not know that Linux does not recognize the space between the file name.

How can a command interpreter know what is part of a file name and what is part of a new command?