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I installed cardapio and its icon was in launcher as well in application lens in dash. When I unistalled cardapio, its icon vanished from the launcher (as it should) but the icon is still present in application lens in Dash. Is there a way to get rid of it?

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  • You should probably also file a bug towards the package you used for installation; packages should remove all traces (except maybe configuration) when uninstalled.
    – tucuxi
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:35
  • Did you log out and back in after the removal of cardapio. Changes to unity lenses might only happen after that.
    – con-f-use
    Jul 31, 2012 at 16:43
  • yes, I did numerous times! Unfortunately, the cardapio icon in applications lens is persistent!
    – SteliosSk
    Aug 1, 2012 at 6:53

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Well, with help from this askubuntu question I carried out the suggestion of florian-diesch to

grep cardapio ~/.local/share/applications/*

and there was cardapio.desktop. I deleted it and now the cardapio icon does not show up any more among the applications in dash.

Thank you all for your willingness to help me solve my problem.

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  • I have merged your accounts (N.B. it makes it easier to login to your original account if you use a registered login). You can click the tick button against the answer that helps you - either this one or the other answer in this thread. thanks.
    – fossfreedom ♦
    Aug 2, 2012 at 19:24
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I had the same issue. First I uninstalled the application, then I deleted all references from the following folder:

/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications
~/.local/share/applications

Rebooted....

If not install this MENU editor:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caldas-lopes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ezame

and delete unwanted icons.

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try to run in terminal

sudo rm /usr/share/applications/cardapio.desktop

this will remove it from launcher, after that:

sudo apt-get remove cardapio && sudo apt-get autoremove

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  • why move to /opt (will stay there forever) instead of /tmp (will be removed on next boot) or directly delete?
    – tucuxi
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:37
  • @tucuxi i don't read that programm is removed ;), now i know and he can just remove it
    – hingev
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:37
  • Thank you for your immediate replies. As I said, I have uninstalled the cardapio application. Its icon is not anymore in launcher. It only shows in (installed) application lens in dash.
    – SteliosSk
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:38
  • @SteliosSk your'e welcome :D
    – hingev
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:39
  • @SteliosSk look at edited answer, may help
    – hingev
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:42
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None of it worked for me.
What i did

  1. CtrlAltT to run terminal

  2. sudo -i to log in as superuser

  3. enter your password

  4. cd .local/share/applications

  5. ls -l

    See if you see <your_app>.desktop in here. If you do, then issue rm -f -r <your_app>.desktop to delete the file

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