Wine no longer appears in KDE menu

grooveman · l33t Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 956

Hi,

This is something that has been annoying me for the past few months. Wine used to always have an entry in my KDE menu, but a while back, I whacked all my KDE and desktop preferences, wanting to start over with a clean, default interface. Ever since then, Wine will not show in my menu. It was great before, because not only did wine show, but the windows programs I installed also had entries. Now -- nothing. I figured the next time I updated wine, it would put itself back, but there has been 3 updates, and this has not happened.

I have looked in ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu -- there are no <Deleted> entries in the list. I know I could rebuild everything by hand... but that is a bit of a pain, and I'd really like to know why it doesn't work anymore. I tried looking for kappfinder, but that seems to have disappeared from kde somewhere along the way.

Any way to get this back?

Thanks.

G
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sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1028 Location: Romania

You can try kde-base/kmenuedit or xdg-desktop-menu command.
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grooveman · l33t Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 956

Using kmenuedit would constitute doing it by hand. I don't want to do that.

I'm not sure what xdg-desktop-menu is... I cannot find it in portage, and I cannot find it on my system. Is that just the generic version of kmenuedit? Like I said, KDE used to just know about wine, and that is what I'm looking for. I don't want to do this by hand for every desktop I have to setup. Even copying config files to work around this issue is silly when it should be doing it automatically.
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gentooP4 · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:23 pm Post subject:

I have recentely installed WINE for the first time and I too have no menu entry.
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sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1028 Location: Romania

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grooveman · l33t Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 956

dwbowyer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 147

I've had this same problem twice in 4 years after wiping out .config file directories. I've never found a decent solution to getting back a wine menu, except for reinstalling the programs. Which to me is more a pain in the @$$ than the method I finally came up with. My suggestion is:

navigate to ~/.local/share/applications/wine/*

Then add to each desktop file a line like so:

Categories=Game;StrategyGame

Then you have Windows programs fall into the regular menu structure, and as long as you remember not to delete the .local/ folder, you wipe other config and hidden folders any time you like and still keep your Windows(Wine) programs sorted.

If you REALLY want to have a separate Wine menu do the following:

Again modify the desktop files:

Categories=Wine;"Whatever"

THEN:edit (as root) /etc/xdg/menus/kde-4-applications.menu
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