How to remove dangling menu items

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bg3075
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How to remove dangling menu items

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I tried to test Wine for the first time, installing the only application that I already had an executable for, an old version of Seamonkey web browser. It installed ok, but when uninstalled, through wine, had some issues...first the unistall option did not appear in wine, but fixed that. Finally, when uninstalled Seamonkey, it left a second wine menu item in Gnome Applications menu. I have uninstalled, reinstalled wine several times. Even tried the instructions in the FAQ, "How do I uninstall wine", at http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-2e99ab6 ... b2d5839586. This somehow corrupted my kernel, but it seems to have been restored since. Nothing I do will get rid of the two Wine menu items. This is the information that I had for my wine installation/update:

Name : wine
Arch : i386
Version : 1.1.15
Release : 1.fc10
Size : 23 k
Repo : updates
Summary : A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator

And Gnome desktop:

Name : gnome-desktop
Arch : i386
Version : 2.24.3
Release : 1.fc10
Size : 2.6 M
Repo : installed

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Fixed

Post by bg3075 »

OK, this was easy...I just now figured out that you can right-click the "Applications" menu in Gnome and "Edit Menus" and then remove or delete items. Duh!!!!!
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Post by Daemon »

For those real pesky items you can dig around in the /home/(user)/.local/share directory. applications/desktop-directories/icons mainly.
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Re: How to remove dangling menu items

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bg3075 wrote:Finally, when uninstalled Seamonkey, it left a second wine menu item in Gnome Applications menu.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391
bg3075 wrote:OK, this was easy...I just now figured out that you can right-click the "Applications" menu in Gnome and "Edit Menus" and then remove or delete items. Duh!!!!!
Not really - http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-34c8b5d ... a1aa8fea48
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