[Discuss] Gnome 3 activities screen -- Found the Culprit

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 03/03/2013 05:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 03/03/2013 04:22 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> On 3/3/2013 11:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> On my gnome3 activities screen I have 2 icons that are dead.(eg. mouse
>>> to top left, then click on all applications)
>>> One icon is blank and the other specifices the application but does not
>>> point anywhere. I'd like to be able to remove one of the icons and edit
>>> the other. (I can probably fix the other one by placing a symlink in
>>> /usr/bin).
>>>
>>> I did a some google searching, but nothing really solved the problem.
>>>
>> You can right click on them to bring up a context menu to remove them.
>> Then in the full application list, you can right click to "add to
>> favorites" to fix the other.
> The context menu only has "New Window" and "Add to Favorites",
> the favorites bar when you right click on an applicaiton only has 
> "Remove from Favorites, New Windows, and a an additional entry or two 
> if the application is running.
> There is no way I have found to delete those icons, or to edit the 
> icons to point them to the correct application, I've run the 
> gnome-tweak tool, the gconf and dconf editors, but I was not able to 
> fine where the icons can be removed. I added a "Remove Activities 
> Button", but that removes the hot corner.  If I do a find -name using 
> wildcards looling in /usr/share ~/.local.
> The application itself installs in /opt, but at present I have to call 
> it via the command line.
>
> This is not a big issue since everything works. I just don't know how 
> to remove application icons from the desktop (all applications, not 
> yhr favorites bar).
>
>
As I suspected the culprit was in ~/.local/share/applications
The file is called alacarte-made.desktop
Actually, there are a couple of them.I don't know why they were in my 
~/.local/share/applications since I installed the product as root from 
the .rpm file. Also, the dates on those files go back to Fedora 17 last 
November.

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