diff --git a/port/assets/menus/README.md b/port/assets/menus/README.md
index 91332b25..34ddc305 100644
--- a/port/assets/menus/README.md
+++ b/port/assets/menus/README.md
@@ -167,7 +167,10 @@ The port's functions: `port quit game` quits; `port setting load` (on a
 spinner's `created`) shows its setting's value and `port setting save` (on
 its `deleted`) writes the value shown to `config.toml`, if it changed. Of
 the PC version's: `main menu quit game` quits, `profile set edit begin`
-begins editing the first player profile, `mouse emit back event` and
+begins editing the first player profile (with none it fails, and the main
+menu's asks for a new one's name first, as `new game if no plyr profiles`
+does, for its `<conditional>` to make the profile, which the port's `new
+campaign decision` then has Settings edit), `mouse emit back event` and
 `mouse emit x event` push B and X, `emit custom activation event` and
 `single prev cl item activated` run the screen's or the list's
 `custom_activation` handlers, and its back handlers go back. Its
diff --git a/port/linux/game/menu_functions.c b/port/linux/game/menu_functions.c
index 7f9cb55e..76622c83 100644
--- a/port/linux/game/menu_functions.c
+++ b/port/linux/game/menu_functions.c
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ calls them from PC_MENU_FUNCTION_BASE on):
 - "port quit game" (and the PC version's "main menu quit game") quits, as
   closing the window does;
 - the PC version's "profile set edit begin" begins editing the first player
-  profile, as its settings screens need, and fails with none (its handlers
-  then open the screens that make one);
+  profile, as its settings screens need, and fails with none: the main
+  menu's then asks for a new one's name, as the menu's other items do, and
+  its handlers open the screens that make the profile ("new campaign
+  decision", after which Settings' is the one being edited);
 - "gamespy screen init" hides the server browser's error and filter panels,
   and the title of the mode "mp type set mode" did not choose (Internet or
   LAN);
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ their handlers open opens.
 #include "interface/event_manager.h"
 #include "interface/player_ui.h"
 #include "interface/ui_widget.h"
+#include "interface/ui_widget_event_handler_functions.h"
 #include "main/main.h"
 #include "networking/network_game_manager.h"
 #include "saved games/player_profile.h"
@@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ boolean ui_widget_port_dispatch_event(struct widget_instance *widget, short even
 void ui_widget_port_go_back(struct widget_instance *widget);
 short ui_widget_port_list_index(struct widget_instance *list_widget);
 boolean ui_widget_port_saved_game(char const **map_name, short *level, short *difficulty);
+char const *ui_widget_event_handler_function_name(long function_index);
 short main_get_solo_level_from_name(char const *name);
 boolean player_name_clean(wchar_t *name, long count);
 short players_port_local_player_count(void);
@@ -515,6 +519,53 @@ boolean pc_menu_profile_edit_begin(void)
 	return TRUE;
 }
 
+/* the game's own function of the name (as its tags name it), run for the
+widget: for ours of a name of the game's, which do more than it */
+static boolean game_function(char const *name, struct widget_instance *widget, struct event_record *event,
+	boolean *widget_deleted)
+{
+	char const *function;
+	long index;
+
+	for (index = 0; (function = ui_widget_event_handler_function_name(index)) != NULL; index++)
+	{
+		if (!strcmp(function, name))
+			return ui_widget_event_handler_function_invoke(widget, event, (word)index, widget_deleted);
+	}
+	return FALSE;
+}
+
+/* "profile set edit begin": Settings, the main menu's and a game's pause
+menu's. With no profile, the main menu's asks for a new one's name, as the
+menu's other items do ("new game if no plyr profiles"), and fails: the
+screens its handler then opens make the profile and edit it
+(new_profile_decision). Without the name asked, they made none, and showed
+"new campaign decision" as failed. The pause menu's has no such screens,
+and only fails. */
+static boolean profile_edit_begin(struct widget_instance *widget, struct event_record *event,
+	boolean *widget_deleted)
+{
+	if (pc_menu_profile_edit_begin())
+		return TRUE;
+	/* (a press: the profile is made on its controller) */
+	if (main_menu_is_active() && event && event->controller_index >= 0 && event->controller_index < 4)
+		game_function("new campaign chosen", widget, event, widget_deleted);
+	return FALSE;
+}
+
+/* "new campaign decision" (the screen after a new profile's name, each of
+the main menu's items having its own): the game's makes the profile, if the
+name was entered. Settings' then begins editing it: the PC version's screens
+open Settings with nothing more run, and its screen closes at once with no
+profile being edited ("close if not editing profile"). */
+static boolean new_profile_decision(struct widget_instance *widget, struct event_record *event,
+	boolean *widget_deleted)
+{
+	if (!game_function("new campaign decision", widget, event, widget_deleted))
+		return FALSE;
+	return strcmp(widget->name, "settings_creating_profile") || pc_menu_profile_edit_begin();
+}
+
 /* ---------- the campaign */
 
 /* the rows of its lists (main_menu/new_select/list_item_0 to 10) */
@@ -5338,7 +5389,11 @@ boolean pc_menu_event_function_invoke(
 		}
 		else if (!strcmp(name, "profile set edit begin"))
 		{
-			return pc_menu_profile_edit_begin();
+			return profile_edit_begin(widget, event, widget_deleted);
+		}
+		else if (!strcmp(name, "new campaign decision"))
+		{
+			return new_profile_decision(widget, event, widget_deleted);
 		}
 		/* (the press posted is the controller's that chose the button: a
 		split screen player's LEAVE is theirs) */
diff --git a/port/linux/game/menu_tags.c b/port/linux/game/menu_tags.c
index 5a1e5a7b..9a3ff838 100644
--- a/port/linux/game/menu_tags.c
+++ b/port/linux/game/menu_tags.c
@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ static char const *const port_function_names[] =
 	"port password init", "port password edit", "port password join", "port password back",
 	/* (Gamepads' OK in a single-player campaign: pause_settings_patch) */
 	"port profile settings save",
+	/* (a new profile's screens: Settings' is then being edited, which the
+	Xbox's leaves to its own screens) */
+	"new campaign decision",
 };
 
 /* the PC version's game data functions that the Xbox's have not, from