How to remove icons/shortcuts from Unity menu?
I have installed Chromium and Tweet Deck on it (trough Chrome Store), now I uninstalled Tweet Deck and after that Chromium, the problem is, when I installed Tweet Deck it asked me if I want to create a shortcut to it and I chose YES. Now that both are uninstalled the Tweet Deck icon still appears on Unity Menu over Internet.
I tried to remove the icon from the menu but I can't figure out how to do this. It should be a simple thing to do, but is giving me headaches :P
What I have to do to remove the shortcut and possible junk files from Chromium?
Also my Ubuntu version is 11.10 x64.
(Sorry if I write something wrong)
Solution 1:
It seems that you can't remove apps from the Dash, however you can manage your launchers (*.desktop files) in one of the following directories:
/usr/share/applications/usr/local/share/applications~/.local/share/applications
If your launcher file is in any of the first two directories, you will require root permissions to remove it.
Solution 2:
I use an application called alacarte (atalacarte is a program that for editing freedesktop.org complient menus). It allows you to remove the unwanted launchers from the menu or create/add new ones. I had to install this app myself (apt-get) in Ubuntu 12.04. IMO this app should be part of a default Ubuntu installation.
Solution 3:
I had the same issue.
First I uninstalled the application, then I deleted all references from the following folder:
/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications
~/.local/share/applications
Rebooted....but never resolved my issue.
So installed this MENU editor:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caldas-lopes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ezame
and delete unwanted icons.
Solution 4:
I had the same trouble with deleting Firefox icon from Unity launcher. I installed two exemplars of Firefox: one with apt-get and one with dpkg from *.deb, so after removing both copies of Firefox, icon is still showed in Unity launcher.
Here is recipe that helped me:
Looking a package in dpkg
dpkg --list | grep firefox
result
ii firefox-mozilla-build:i386 35.0.1-0ubuntu1 Mozilla Firefox, official Mozilla build, packaged for Ubuntu by the Ubuntuzilla project.
Found! Well, when we know the name of the package, we can remove its remnants
sudo dpkg -r firefox-mozilla-build:i386
That's all, excess icon vanished from the launcher.
Solution 5:
Just now I had a similar problem with one app. The problem with the accepted answer is that desktop files can be stored in many other locations, not only those listed, like this one ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/, for example.
So I can suggest to use the find utility in such a case. One needs to figure out what string is guaranteed to be a part of the name of a desktop file for the app in question and that string should be quite long in order to avoid too much output.
For instance ("iname" stands for case insensitive name, * is a wildcard, it means any character(s) in place of it):
sudo find / -iname '*tweet*'
Also one should try if necessary to search for some particular string in all desktop files on the system, like this:
sudo find / -name '*.desktop' -exec grep -i '*tweet*' {} +
Then remove all those found files and log off.
This should have helped the OP to remove those icons from the menu.