4

I'm using Ubuntu MATE 18.04. Under my Graphics dropdown menu I still have old application icons to uninstalled applications. How do I remove these icons?

Graphics dropdown menu

karel
  • 110,292
  • 102
  • 269
  • 299
Bachalo
  • 753
  • 2
  • 10
  • 27
  • Do you remember how do you installed these programs? – N0rbert Jul 30 '18 at 19:32
  • I still do not understand how do you installed these applications. I can not invent new method (or improve existing) until your provide more details. – N0rbert Dec 15 '18 at 14:27
  • Take a look at [this good answer](https://askubuntu.com/questions/40884/how-can-i-remove-orphaned-start-menu-entries#answer-44303) for such orphaned entries. – loved.by.Jesus Oct 27 '20 at 21:51

2 Answers2

1

GUI method

Make right click on Applications menu, click Edit Menus to run "easy MATE menu editing tool" (System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Main Menu or mozo executable):

Mozo main menu

and remove checkboxes in the Graphics category in Show column.

Console method

Usually applications from Wine or other third-party source save .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/.

You can try to find them here with the command below:

grep -ir -E "Hiero|Nuke" ~/.local/share/applications/

Then carefully remove desktop-files of really removed applications.

N0rbert
  • 97,162
  • 34
  • 239
  • 423
  • 1
    Thanks but neither method works for me. Broken icons don't show up in easy Mate editing tool and using Console method No such file or directory – Bachalo Dec 15 '18 at 14:13
  • 1
    OP For Ubuntu users it is /usr/share/applications – Bachalo Dec 15 '18 at 14:20
1

This software appears to only be supported for CentOS (not Ubuntu) linux, which suggests the desktop files may have been placed in a location which that distro uses. Take a peek in these folders for Nuke related desktop files:

/usr/share/desktop-directories
/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged
/usr/share/applications
in8sworld
  • 11
  • 2