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Yeah yeah. I'm still 'new' to linux. That's true and there is some stuff I don't want to get accustomed to at all. Well that's the feeling right now at least. I'm not totally hopeless though since right now I used ls -h (not working) followed by ls --help (that's it) as a stab into the dark to get to know how I can show hidden directories with the terminal. That part worked, still there is no .pcc2 there at all.

You're looking for "ls -a". If there is no ".pcc2", create one. PCC2 tries to avoid creating the directory if it wouldn't put anything in it by itself.

Anyway, I would recommend everyone to install Midnight Commander which makes file management more visual. However, you may need to enable display of hidden files here as well (Options > Panel options > Show hidden files).

Funny Idea to get a win feeling is to create a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
pcc-v2
done

Put in on the desktop and link it to a picture.

What worked for me, right now and here, in KDE: in file manager (Dolphin), right-click, Create New > Link to application, fill in the "Application" page (Command: /usr/local/bin/pcc-v2), and drag the result onto the desktop.

Furthermore would this command work in order to get PCC into the applications list?

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/pcc-v2 /usr/share/applications

Copying binaries files is never a good idea. I do not yet know what the best way is to get files into menus, in a way that works in most distributions. If it were easy and obvious I would already have done it

15 years ago, Debian was praised for its Menu system (/usr/share/menu), but it seems people have settled for a different solution now.

Addendum
Huh?! I can start pcc-v2 from my old hard disk using wine just fine

If it works, why not?

If you end up with the decision that the Windows version works better in full-screen than the Linux version, I wouldn't be surprised; on my current PC, this is the case whereas on my previous PC it was the other way around. One reason why things are this way is that I'm using a 15 year old toolchain and SDL library. Upgrading that will solve such problems; this is one of the reasons why I want to retire Win95 support... With SDL2, everyone gets smooth full-screen support with GPU-based upscaling.

--Stefan