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I would like to hide all items that I don't need from appearing in App Lens.

For example: XTerm, File Roller and the Home Folder.

Is this possible?

Bruno Pereira
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Klau3
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For any app that you don't want displayed in the Dash it needs a line in it's .desktop, - NoDisplay=true

If NoDisplay=false is there then in a text editor simply edit to true, if the line doesn't exist then add it

Most app's .desktops will be found in /usr/share/applications & can be edited there in a root text editor. Alternately you can copy the .desktop to ~/.local/share/applications & edit there instead with your normal (non root) text editor.

When copied there it is protected against updates & only applies locally to that user

Example in screen of adding line to debian-xterm.desktop

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doug
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  • Any way to do this on a per-user basis? I'd like to blacklist the kids games from my Dash and the kids would like to blacklist my terminal emulators etc. – TenLeftFingers Dec 05 '15 at 21:45
  • There is: http://askubuntu.com/questions/644384/hide-system-settings-applications-in-dash – TenLeftFingers Dec 06 '15 at 02:16
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    I spent quite some time to figure out which name on the Dash corresponds to which name in *.desktop file. But this command came to the rescue: dpkg -S desktop | grep imagemagick. Replace imagemagick with what you are looking for. – SaTa Dec 22 '19 at 14:45