Ubuntu 18.04: Okular's icon persists in the Show Applications menu after removing it
I uninstalled Okular in Ubuntu 18.04 but its icon still persists in Show Applications (not the usual icon however, but a generic one, see screenshot below).
I have checked ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications for a .desktop file, but I don't find any there that belong to Okular.
I have tried all the following commands with no success:
sudo apt remove okular
sudo apt remove --auto-remove okular
sudo apt purge okular
sudo apt purge --auto-remove okular
How can I remove the Okular icon from the Show Applications menu??
See the screenshot:
unity 18.04 icons uninstall
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
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asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
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I uninstalled Okular in Ubuntu 18.04 but its icon still persists in Show Applications (not the usual icon however, but a generic one, see screenshot below).
I have checked ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications for a .desktop file, but I don't find any there that belong to Okular.
I have tried all the following commands with no success:
sudo apt remove okular
sudo apt remove --auto-remove okular
sudo apt purge okular
sudo apt purge --auto-remove okular
How can I remove the Okular icon from the Show Applications menu??
See the screenshot:
unity 18.04 icons uninstall
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13
add a comment |
I uninstalled Okular in Ubuntu 18.04 but its icon still persists in Show Applications (not the usual icon however, but a generic one, see screenshot below).
I have checked ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications for a .desktop file, but I don't find any there that belong to Okular.
I have tried all the following commands with no success:
sudo apt remove okular
sudo apt remove --auto-remove okular
sudo apt purge okular
sudo apt purge --auto-remove okular
How can I remove the Okular icon from the Show Applications menu??
See the screenshot:
unity 18.04 icons uninstall
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
I uninstalled Okular in Ubuntu 18.04 but its icon still persists in Show Applications (not the usual icon however, but a generic one, see screenshot below).
I have checked ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications for a .desktop file, but I don't find any there that belong to Okular.
I have tried all the following commands with no success:
sudo apt remove okular
sudo apt remove --auto-remove okular
sudo apt purge okular
sudo apt purge --auto-remove okular
How can I remove the Okular icon from the Show Applications menu??
See the screenshot:
unity 18.04 icons uninstall
unity 18.04 icons uninstall
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
edited Dec 13 '18 at 12:00
DK Bose
13.3k124083
13.3k124083
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
asked Dec 13 '18 at 11:44
DaniCeeDaniCee
842212
842212
So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13
add a comment |
So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13
So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13
add a comment |
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I'm going to assume you installed okular from Ubuntu Software. In that case the 1st listed is a snap version & likely what you installed.
All kde snaps suffer from the same uninstall flaw where the .desktop file is not removed. You will have to do so manually as root. The location of snap's .desktop files is,
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
The probable name of the file is okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
You can browse there to confirm it's existence, to get the file name one easy way is to DnD the file into a terminal.
So here the command to remove is
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
This highlights one of the issues with snaps, many times one has to go far out of there way to report a bug. In this case, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977. You'd think the KDE snap dev's would have noticed this as it's been happening for quite some time now..
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
13.3k124083
answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
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Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
add a comment |
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I'm going to assume you installed okular from Ubuntu Software. In that case the 1st listed is a snap version & likely what you installed.
All kde snaps suffer from the same uninstall flaw where the .desktop file is not removed. You will have to do so manually as root. The location of snap's .desktop files is,
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
The probable name of the file is okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
You can browse there to confirm it's existence, to get the file name one easy way is to DnD the file into a terminal.
So here the command to remove is
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
This highlights one of the issues with snaps, many times one has to go far out of there way to report a bug. In this case, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977. You'd think the KDE snap dev's would have noticed this as it's been happening for quite some time now..
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
13.3k124083
answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
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Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
add a comment |
I'm going to assume you installed okular from Ubuntu Software. In that case the 1st listed is a snap version & likely what you installed.
All kde snaps suffer from the same uninstall flaw where the .desktop file is not removed. You will have to do so manually as root. The location of snap's .desktop files is,
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
The probable name of the file is okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
You can browse there to confirm it's existence, to get the file name one easy way is to DnD the file into a terminal.
So here the command to remove is
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
This highlights one of the issues with snaps, many times one has to go far out of there way to report a bug. In this case, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977. You'd think the KDE snap dev's would have noticed this as it's been happening for quite some time now..
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
13.3k124083
answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
14.1k13553
Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
add a comment |
I'm going to assume you installed okular from Ubuntu Software. In that case the 1st listed is a snap version & likely what you installed.
All kde snaps suffer from the same uninstall flaw where the .desktop file is not removed. You will have to do so manually as root. The location of snap's .desktop files is,
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
The probable name of the file is okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
You can browse there to confirm it's existence, to get the file name one easy way is to DnD the file into a terminal.
So here the command to remove is
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
This highlights one of the issues with snaps, many times one has to go far out of there way to report a bug. In this case, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977. You'd think the KDE snap dev's would have noticed this as it's been happening for quite some time now..
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
13.3k124083
answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
14.1k13553
I'm going to assume you installed okular from Ubuntu Software. In that case the 1st listed is a snap version & likely what you installed.
All kde snaps suffer from the same uninstall flaw where the .desktop file is not removed. You will have to do so manually as root. The location of snap's .desktop files is,
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
The probable name of the file is okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
You can browse there to confirm it's existence, to get the file name one easy way is to DnD the file into a terminal.
So here the command to remove is
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/okular_org.kde.okular.desktop
This highlights one of the issues with snaps, many times one has to go far out of there way to report a bug. In this case, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977. You'd think the KDE snap dev's would have noticed this as it's been happening for quite some time now..
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
13.3k124083
answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
14.1k13553
edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
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edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
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edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
DK Bose
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answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
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answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
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answered Dec 13 '18 at 13:18
dougdoug
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14.1k13553
Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
add a comment |
Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Alright! Yes, that was the proper location of the .desktop file
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:29
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
Decided to post here - forum.snapcraft.io/t/kde-snaps-flaw/8977
– doug
Dec 13 '18 at 13:48
add a comment |
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So far only Okular... I click the icon and nothing happens
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 11:53
Restart Shell, or log out and back in, or eventually your computer before concluding it persists in your application menu. Yet, normally, it should be gone after uninstalling the app.
– vanadium
Dec 13 '18 at 12:41
I have restarted a million times and the icon is still there
– DaniCee
Dec 13 '18 at 13:13