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Riccardo Orlando
Asked: 2016-10-09 00:21:33 +0800 CST

I cannot find the .desktop files to remove them from dash

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Messing around with wine, I successfully installed Deus Ex (the original), and created my own custom launcher for it. Everything works fine.

However the installation created some launchers of its own in the unity dash, namely an "uninstall" and a "safe mode" launcher.

I wish to remove those, but they don't show up in any of these folders:

/usr/local/share/applications (doesn't exist)
/usr/share/applications/
~/.local/applications

I even ran find / -name '*.desktop' | grep deus but found nothing.

Is there a way to just get the path of the launcher straight from the Dash?

wine

2 Answers

  1. grep is case-sensitive; that is, you must match the pattern with respect to uppercase and lowercase letters. Adapt your find-command and search again.

    find / -name '*.desktop' | grep Deus
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  2. Best Answer

    Ok, I found them: they were under:

    ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/GOG.com/

    I guess they escaped the | grep search because of capitalization, and I just didn't think to look inside the GOG folder, inside the wine folder...

    Running find /home/orlando/.local/ | grep .desktop | grep deus -i, while not elegant, found everything and more.

    I still don't know how to find a .desktop file's specific location from the Dash, but I guess just looking in the appropriate folders will do the trick.

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