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I had libre office calc locked to my launcher dock but when I removed libre office the icon stayed on the dock and now I cannot remove it. Right clicking on it gives me the option "unlock from launcher" but when I do that it is still there.

According to "here" I tried to look for the .desktop file but cannot find one for libre office anywhere.

Suggestions as to how to remove it?

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Open a terminal and enter:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

The command would output the items currently in the launcher like this:

['ubiquity-gtkui.desktop', 'nautilus-home.desktop', 'libreoffice-calc.desktop', 'gnome-control-center.desktop']

Now if you want to remove libreoffice-calc, exclude it's .desktop entry and set the new favourite string as:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['ubiquity-gtkui.desktop', 'nautilus-home.desktop', 'gnome-control-center.desktop']"

(take care of the separators and quotes.)

To delete the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications use:

sudo rm /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-calc.desktop
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