How do I remove Wine program entries from the menu?

Question

I had installed some programms with Wine, but I removed Wine from my computer. Now when I browse all applications in the Unity menu, the symbols of the programms I installed with Wine are still there.

How can I remove them?

score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 10 '19 at 16:10

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It should be enough to remove the local wine folder ~/.local/share/applications/wine.

edited Apr 10 '19 at 16:10

bugmenot123

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answered Apr 27 '11 at 15:08

htorque

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Careful doing this as you may have other shortcuts in this folder that you don't want to delete. Better to rm ~/.local/share/applications/wine-*. – Big McLargeHuge May 29 '16 at 18:27
^ has been resolved by editing the post contents – bugmenot123 Apr 11 '19 at 10:43

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 24 '15 at 18:43

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Carefull - mistakes when using sudo to delete stuff can be disastrous!

rm ~/.local/share/applications/wine*.desktop
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/wine*.desktop

You might need to log out and back in to see the changes, depending on the desktop you are using (kde, gnome, ...)

edited Sep 24 '15 at 18:43

z3ntu

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answered Jan 17 '14 at 06:49

timo

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '11 at 18:59

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You can use alacarte in order to enable/disable applications using GUI.

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Also you can directly remove the wine .desktop files on /home/user/.local/share/applications.

answered Apr 27 '11 at 18:59

Alfredo Hernández

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This is a cleaner solution and while i did clear out the wine related files (hidden files shown), this actually did it correctly. – Angry 84 Mar 26 '22 at 16:33

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 08:05

To remove these leftover menu entries, carefully paste the following commands into a terminal:

rm -f ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/????_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png} }}}

Source: https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Uninstalling

I posted it here as other answers weren't enough for me. Also I didn't use the last two commands as I didn't find such icon names manually.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 14 '13 at 16:32

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You can navigate to the Wine programs directory and delete files, then use Bleachbit (a CCleaner-like application) to clean broken links an so on.

edited Apr 14 '13 at 16:32

Basharat Sialvi

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answered Apr 27 '11 at 15:17

fitojb

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 27 '11 at 18:49

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Go to the Main Menu, scroll to where the left over entries for Wine programs are, now de-select them and then for each one click delete.

answered Apr 27 '11 at 18:49

scouser73

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How do I remove Wine program entries from the menu?

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