Missing “Wine Windows Program Loader”
Installed wine stable, winetricks, PoL, Q4wine. No "Wine Windows Program Loader" entry on Dolphin context menu, neither on KDE launcher menu. Can only open .exe via Q4wine or console.
Kubuntu 18.04(Almost fresh install)
linux 4.15.0-20-generic(x86_64)
Plasma 5.12.4
kubuntu wine plasma-5
asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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Installed wine stable, winetricks, PoL, Q4wine. No "Wine Windows Program Loader" entry on Dolphin context menu, neither on KDE launcher menu. Can only open .exe via Q4wine or console.
Kubuntu 18.04(Almost fresh install)
linux 4.15.0-20-generic(x86_64)
Plasma 5.12.4
kubuntu wine plasma-5
asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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Installed wine stable, winetricks, PoL, Q4wine. No "Wine Windows Program Loader" entry on Dolphin context menu, neither on KDE launcher menu. Can only open .exe via Q4wine or console.
Kubuntu 18.04(Almost fresh install)
linux 4.15.0-20-generic(x86_64)
Plasma 5.12.4
kubuntu wine plasma-5
asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
113
Installed wine stable, winetricks, PoL, Q4wine. No "Wine Windows Program Loader" entry on Dolphin context menu, neither on KDE launcher menu. Can only open .exe via Q4wine or console.
Kubuntu 18.04(Almost fresh install)
linux 4.15.0-20-generic(x86_64)
Plasma 5.12.4
kubuntu wine plasma-5
kubuntu wine plasma-5
asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
LucioLucio
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asked May 8 '18 at 18:17
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I am not sure about Kubuntu, but this is a known bug in Linux Mint. This might well be the case though since Mint is based on Ubuntu.
According to the bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mintmenu/+bug/714848),
"There are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.
The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:someprog" is encoded to "C:\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure."
This is not a wine issue according to the developers and needs to be fixed outside of wine. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2)
answered Aug 13 '18 at 4:29
thephoenix01thephoenix01
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Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix
Run the below command in terminal
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
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I am not sure about Kubuntu, but this is a known bug in Linux Mint. This might well be the case though since Mint is based on Ubuntu.
According to the bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mintmenu/+bug/714848),
"There are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.
The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:someprog" is encoded to "C:\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure."
This is not a wine issue according to the developers and needs to be fixed outside of wine. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2)
answered Aug 13 '18 at 4:29
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I am not sure about Kubuntu, but this is a known bug in Linux Mint. This might well be the case though since Mint is based on Ubuntu.
According to the bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mintmenu/+bug/714848),
"There are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.
The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:someprog" is encoded to "C:\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure."
This is not a wine issue according to the developers and needs to be fixed outside of wine. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2)
answered Aug 13 '18 at 4:29
thephoenix01thephoenix01
398314
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I am not sure about Kubuntu, but this is a known bug in Linux Mint. This might well be the case though since Mint is based on Ubuntu.
According to the bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mintmenu/+bug/714848),
"There are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.
The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:someprog" is encoded to "C:\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure."
This is not a wine issue according to the developers and needs to be fixed outside of wine. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2)
answered Aug 13 '18 at 4:29
thephoenix01thephoenix01
398314
I am not sure about Kubuntu, but this is a known bug in Linux Mint. This might well be the case though since Mint is based on Ubuntu.
According to the bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mintmenu/+bug/714848),
"There are problems launching Wine-applications from MintMenu. Launching them from the desktop or panel works fine.
The root cause seems to be the double backslash-escaping done in the launcher-file, so "C:someprog" is encoded to "C:\someprog", and "my file" is encoded to "my file". It seems mint menu while decoding is just decoding it once, causing failure."
This is not a wine issue according to the developers and needs to be fixed outside of wine. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706#c2)
answered Aug 13 '18 at 4:29
thephoenix01thephoenix01
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Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix
Run the below command in terminal
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
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Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix
Run the below command in terminal
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
4810
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Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix
Run the below command in terminal
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
4810
Actually the launcher is misplaced in Ubuntu 18+, Ubuntu made a mistake, all the other distributions based on ubuntu including linux mint inherited the bug, nobody cared to fix
Run the below command in terminal
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now right click the windows app and click open with , you can now see open with "wine windows program loader" in the applications list.
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
4810
answered Jan 18 at 4:35
Clain DsilvaClain Dsilva
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answered Jan 18 at 4:35
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answered Jan 18 at 4:35
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