How Can I disable wine auto Association of .exe files

winefans · Post by **winefans** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:51 pm

after install wine ,double cilck the .exe file ,then it can atuo start wine and run the .exe file.

i don't like this. i think the .exe file can be wined only run "wine" command in the terminal.

so i remove the .exe file "wine windows Program Loader" in the "properties"

but the .exe still auto run by double-click.

i add "#" every line front in the "/usr/bin/winecfg"

but the .exe still run by double-click

How Can I disable wine auto Association of .exe files?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:46 am

winefans wrote:How Can I disable wine auto Association of .exe files?

Wine itself doesn't do it. Ask your distro how they did it and how to disable it.

Vincent Povirk · Post by **Vincent Povirk** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:05 pm

Wine advertises that it can start .exe files using freedesktop
standards. Specifically, it installs a file named wine.desktop. It the
desktop environment (not Wine or the distro) that decides how to use
this information.

Double-clicking on .exe files (using wine.desktop) should work better
than the terminal nowadays. If there's a program that works in recent
Wine when started from the terminal and not from double-clicking, I
want to know about it.

You may also want to check if you have something installed called
"binfmt-support". This is not part of Wine, and it will also cause
desktop environments to start wine for .exe files when they are
double-clicked (but in a broken way).

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:26 am

I have a problem where EXE files keep being associated with my archive manager (file roller) after I unpacked something, and I have to manually reassociate EXEs to Wine. Could this problem be related to binfmt-support?