How can I remove icon of uninstalled application from application lens in Dash?

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I installed cardapio and its icon was in launcher as well in application lens in dash. When I unistalled cardapio, its icon vanished from the launcher (as it should) but the icon is still present in application lens in Dash. Is there a way to get rid of it?

You should probably also file a bug towards the package you used for installation; packages should remove all traces (except maybe configuration) when uninstalled. — tucuxi, Jul 31 '12 at 15:35
Did you log out and back in after the removal of cardapio. Changes to unity lenses might only happen after that. — con-f-use, Jul 31 '12 at 16:43
yes, I did numerous times! Unfortunately, the cardapio icon in applications lens is persistent! — SteliosSk, Aug 01 '12 at 06:53

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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Well, with help from this askubuntu question I carried out the suggestion of florian-diesch to

grep cardapio ~/.local/share/applications/*

and there was cardapio.desktop. I deleted it and now the cardapio icon does not show up any more among the applications in dash.

Thank you all for your willingness to help me solve my problem.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Aug 02 '12 at 19:06

SteliosSk

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I have merged your accounts (N.B. it makes it easier to login to your original account if you use a registered login). You can click the tick button against the answer that helps you - either this one or the other answer in this thread. thanks. – fossfreedom Aug 02 '12 at 19:24

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '16 at 10:37

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....

If not install this MENU editor:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caldas-lopes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ezame

and delete unwanted icons.

hingev · Answer 3 · 2012-07-31T15:38:00.863

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try to run in terminal

sudo rm /usr/share/applications/cardapio.desktop

this will remove it from launcher, after that:

sudo apt-get remove cardapio && sudo apt-get autoremove

edited Jul 31 '12 at 15:38

answered Jul 31 '12 at 15:32

hingev

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why move to /opt (will stay there forever) instead of /tmp (will be removed on next boot) or directly delete? – tucuxi Jul 31 '12 at 15:37
@tucuxi i don't read that programm is removed ;), now i know and he can just remove it – hingev Jul 31 '12 at 15:37
Thank you for your immediate replies. As I said, I have uninstalled the cardapio application. Its icon is not anymore in launcher. It only shows in (installed) application lens in dash. – SteliosSk Jul 31 '12 at 15:38
@SteliosSk your'e welcome :D – hingev Jul 31 '12 at 15:39
@SteliosSk look at edited answer, may help – hingev Jul 31 '12 at 15:42
No result with the suggestions. The cardapio icon in application lens is persistent! – SteliosSk Aug 02 '12 at 08:39

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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None of it worked for me.
What i did

CtrlAltT to run terminal
sudo -i to log in as superuser
enter your password
cd .local/share/applications
ls -l

See if you see <your_app>.desktop in here. If you do, then issue rm -f -r <your_app>.desktop to delete the file

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Mar 29 '14 at 03:30

dbnex14

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How can I remove icon of uninstalled application from application lens in Dash?

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