I cam across this thread on having two icons for Files. I am frustrated by having two icons, one for Nautilus and one for Nemo to manage Files. This explains how to change the names of the icons, but if I only want to use Nemo, how can I remove the other icon from showing up at all?
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To do it the safe way, i.e. without directly altering your system files, copy the .desktop
file represented by the icon that you do not want to see to your local .local/share/applications
folder as indicated in this related question. Add, or edit the existing line if present, to read
Hidden=true
This causes the launcher to be fully ignored, as if it did not exist.