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hiigaran
Asked: 2019-06-28 06:16:27 +0800 CST

Where are the entries located for icons listed in Show Applications?

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When I open up the Show Applications menu to see all my installed software, I see a lot of dead links, mostly for programs I have previously installed through Wine, which I no longer use. However, I can't delete them. Is there some place I can manually edit or delete these from?

Running Ubuntu 19.04.

gnome-shell

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    Application launchers (files with .desktop suffix) for apps installed using Wine should be found in your ~/.local/share/applications/ directory.

    However snap applications may also exhibit the same issue, viz. ghost icons in application overview after uninstalling the application. In that case the launchers would be found in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/ directory.

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