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Wine won't update its menu

Asked by Michael James

I recently installed Diablo II and wine does not update its menu (under applications->wine->programs) to display Diablo. How do I get it to update? It works fine in root's account.

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MattWelborn (mattwelborn) said : 		#1

Did you install it as root?

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Michael James (mbj1103) said : 		#2

I installed it as me but with sudo.
I have also noticed that when I tried KDE, wine updated the K menu with its programs, but when I went back to Gnome wine had still not updated its area. (I was logged in as me)

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) said : 		#3

These two entries in the Wine FAQ should help you: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014

Running Wine as root using sudo is the cause of the problem. You'll need to change ownership of your entire ~/.wine directory from root back to your user, as well as the contents of ~/.local/share

sudo chown -R (yourusername):(yourusername) ~/.local/share
sudo chown -R (yourusername):(yourusername) ~/.wine

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Reynaldo Matos Hortensi (lasanhadeberinjela) said : 		#4

Hi,
I have installed starcraft in the official Karmic Koala release as user, but wine don't create a menu entry. Before it worked on intrepid.

Someone knows how do I get the menu entries?
Thanks a lot.

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