unwanted programs still showing

kotton · Post by **kotton** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:41 pm

i'm running the latest version of wine on the latest version of ubuntu. i've tried a couple of programs on wine that didn't work. after i have uninstalled them they still appear in the dropdown menu Applications/Wine/Programs. i have deleted them from the wine folder. how can i get rid of these useless entries??
thanks

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:35 am

kotton wrote:i'm running the latest version of wine on the latest version of ubuntu. i've tried a couple of programs on wine that didn't work. after i have uninstalled them they still appear in the dropdown menu Applications/Wine/Programs. i have deleted them from the wine folder. how can i get rid of these useless entries??
thanks

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

kotton · Post by **kotton** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:21 am

ok thanks. but that only tells me how to delete ALL the items in the menu. then it says below that
2.42. I deleted my Wine menu, and now I can't get it back.

Rather than actually delete anything, menu editors on Linux simply mark menus as "Deleted" so that they don't show up in the menu.

This information is stored in ~/.config/menus/applications.menu. Edit ~/.config/menus/applications.menu, and you should find a section near the end that looks similar to this:

i can't find /.config/menus/applications.menu

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:05 am

kotton wrote:
i can't find /.config/menus/applications.menu

Set your file manager to show hidden files. If you don't know how to do that, consult your distro's documentation.

kotton · Post by **kotton** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:09 pm

i've done that but that folder doesn't exixt

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:01 pm

kotton wrote:i've done that but that folder doesn't exixt

It's ~/.config/menus/applications.menu. Note "~" at the front of it.

dawinsor87 · Post by **dawinsor87** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:40 am

For what it's worth, that confused me a LOT too. I am an intermediate Ubuntu user, and when I was first messing around with Wine a few versions ago. I had no idea that the ~ was shorthand for the home directory.

Perhaps that should be posted somewhere, or is it something that the average user should already know?

kotton · Post by **kotton** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:50 am

ok , thanks, but my dir is called applications-merged. there are 2.menu files in there from 2 programs i have just installed. the previous 3 that i deleted from the menu are gone, but the programs remain. i guess i should just re-install them again to get them back in the menu?

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:19 am

ok , thanks, but my dir is called applications-merged. there are 2.menu files in there from 2 programs i have just installed. the previous 3 that i deleted from the menu are gone, but the programs remain. i guess i should just re-install them again to get them back in the menu?

You could just add them to your menu yourself through your menu editor. (If you don't know how to do that, ask your distro.)

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