Removing entries from the ‘Open with Other Application’ menu in Ubuntu

So recently I decided to remove Wine once and for all… again. However, after doing so, I realized that the ‘Open with Other Application’ menu in Ubuntu 10.04 does not flush all the Wine-related entries in it (this menu can be accessed by right-clicking any file/folder in the file-system). I googled around to find a fix for this issue and did not find a good solution. The solution was finally found on some forums and was in a pretty fragmented state. So I am compiling it here.

Go to the ‘/home/<username>/.local/share/applications’ directory. Find all the Wine-related documents in there and delete them… just like that. Then open the ‘mimeapps.list’ file in the same folder using gedit (or your favorite text editor). Again find all Wine-related entries in the file and delete them. This can be tricky, so make a backup copy of the file before you change anything. That should get rid of those useless entries once and for all. This solution can probably be used to get rid of any entry. Try it and let me know.

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