Installing Lutris and Wine Depencendies takes over File Associations

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Yes, this is due to stupid wine auto-mime-associations triggered by creating prefix / installing / running any software in it.

Read on portable wineprefixes here, you’ll find some scripts examples to get a grip of how basic wine works

To avoid this:

  1. Delete those wine-specific entries from ~/.config/autostart and ~/.config/mimeapps.list and ~/.local/share/applications/ (i think? it was so long i don’t even remember :laughing:) and make sure you don’t have files associated with wine anymore.

  2. Basically to avoid this in future you’ll need to always run any wine / winetricks commands with that prefix:

    env WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winemenubuilder.exe=d" wine some_command
env WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winemenubuilder.exe=d" winetricks some_command

Lutris itself shouldn’t create those as far as i remember, only wine / winetricks directly.