[SOLVED] Wine hijacked my file associations

kikinovak · 01-15-2015, 09:30 AM

Hi,

Some time ago I installed Wine on my desktop to test some things. Eventually, the tests were conclusive and I removed Wine, since I didn't have any more use for it.

Unfortunately my file associations are messed up since. I'm running Xfce, and the desktop tries to open simple text files with "notepad", PNG and JPG files with "Wine Internet Explorer", etc.

Wine seems to do a good job of emulating Windows' intrusiveness, but how can I get rid of that nonsense?

Cheers,

Niki

schmatzler · 01-15-2015, 09:33 AM

You can remove all wine file associations with these commands:

Code:

rm -f ~/.local/share/mime/packages/x-wine*
rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension*
rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/*/application-x-wine-extension*
rm -f ~/.local/share/mime/application/x-wine-extension*

Or just skim through the directories and remove what you want to.

ponce · 01-15-2015, 09:44 AM

here (latest 1.7.x wine) to fix image/jpeg association I removed

Code:

~/.local/share/mime/image/jpeg.xml
~/.local/share/mime/packages/x-wine-extension-jfif.xml
~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jfif.desktop
~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpe.desktop

after, I noticed that all the content of

Code:

~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/mime

was created by wine, so I decided to just empty the above folders.

don't forget to run after

Code:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

as a reference see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...t_applications

dugan · 01-15-2015, 10:54 AM

And for next time:

How can I prevent Wine from changing the filetype associations on my system or adding unwanted menu entries/desktop links when I install a Windows program?

elcore · 01-16-2015, 01:46 AM

Thanks for posting your solutions, these things bother me as well.
I had it solved by removing these folders :

Code:

~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/desktop-directories
~/.local/share/mime

And creating empty files there :

Code:

~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/desktop-directories
~/.local/share/mime

May be an ugly solution, but it's a permanent one.
It will persist even if I upgrade wine/wineprefix.

kikinovak · 01-16-2015, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elcore

Thanks for posting your solutions, these things bother me as well.
I had it solved by removing these folders :

Code:

~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/desktop-directories
~/.local/share/mime

And creating empty files there :

Code:

~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/desktop-directories
~/.local/share/mime

May be an ugly solution, but it's a permanent one.
It will persist even if I upgrade wine/wineprefix.

Worked like a charm. Thanks very much for all your suggestions!

Edit: the "solution" above is a VERY BAD IDEA. While Wine doesn't hijack your file associations anymore, it clears ALL your predefined file associations (MPLayer for MKV files, etc.). Firefox keeps asking for being default browser at every startup, etc.

DON'T DO THIS. THIS IS WRONG.

elcore · 01-19-2015, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak

Worked like a charm. Thanks very much for all your suggestions!

Edit: the "solution" above is a VERY BAD IDEA. While Wine doesn't hijack your file associations anymore, it clears ALL your predefined file associations (MPLayer for MKV files, etc.). Firefox keeps asking for being default browser at every startup, etc.

DON'T DO THIS. THIS IS WRONG.

This doesn't happen here, I'm using that ugly workaround for 2 years.
My setup is KDE 4.10.5 with smplayer, and mkv opens perfectly fine.

And because it's quite possibly my fault that your system broke...
I have made you a file to revert these changes on demand:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# cut wine files

mv ~/.local/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications.bac
mv ~/.local/share/desktop-directories ~/.local/share/desktop-directories.bac
mv ~/.local/share/mime ~/.local/share/mime.bac

touch ~/.local/share/applications
touch ~/.local/share/desktop-directories
touch ~/.local/share/mime

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# uncut wine files

rm ~/.local/share/applications
rm ~/.local/share/desktop-directories
rm ~/.local/share/mime

mv ~/.local/share/applications.bac ~/.local/share/applications
mv ~/.local/share/desktop-directories.bac ~/.local/share/desktop-directories
mv ~/.local/share/mime.bac ~/.local/share/mime

It was not intentional, from my point of view, it works fine.