Run theWord

Font support

To display and format correctly, you will need to copy the Tahoma font from a Windows computer to the Cache folder.


Create theword.sh file in ~/Dropbox/theWord

#!/bin/bash

#


# Check if theword.exe is running already

ps cax | grep 'theword.exe' | grep -o '^[ ]*[0-9]*'


if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then


exit


else

#remove w: drive symbolic link

unlink ~/.wine/dosdevices/w:


# Change to the folder this shell script ran from

cd .


# make symbolic

ln -s ~/Dropbox/theWord ~/.wine/dosdevices/w:


# Run SOMMELIER + WINE + THEWORD

# dpi impacts the scaling of the mouse cursor and how editor of text works with the cursor, or else editing text may not appear to work correctly.

# dpi=96 is the Microsoft Windows default

# dpi=144 is good

# scale should be between 0.3 and 0.5 depending on your vision comfort level

# TEST with sommelier -X --scale=0.5 wine winecfg to test diff dpi values



sommelier -X --dpi=144 --scale=0.5 --accelerators="Super_L" wine w:\theword.exe


# remove w: drive symbolic link

unlink ~/.wine/dosdevices/w:

fi


exit


Make the theword.sh file executable

chmod +x ~/Dropbox/theWord/theword.sh


Create a Launcher file for the Word

nano ~/Dropbox/theWord/theword.desktop

IMPORTANT: replace <user name> with your chromebook user name

  • ABSOLUTE PATHS ARE REQUIRED

  • The theword.png was created by extracting the icon from theword.exe

  • whoami in the terminal will show the <user name> value

[Desktop Entry]

Name=theWord

Name[en_GB]=theWord

Comment=theWord

Comment[en_GB]=theWord

Exec=sh -c ~/Dropbox/theWord/theword.sh

Icon=D84C_theword.0

Terminal=false

Type=Application

StartupNotify=false

StartupWMClass=theword.exe


Add to the Launcher by creating a symbolic link

ln -s ~/Dropbox/theWord/theword.desktop ~/.local/share/applications

After a second or two theWord will show in the Launcher


Run theWord

Select theWord to run it