How to remove old entries from start menu kde plasma on arch linux? (Solved)

[stone sedge]

Can you post a screenshot of this menu?

Would you like to send your desktop entries?

tar -zc ~/.local/share/applications | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io   

The rick website is a file server

Do not try to open this url as its a binary file, instead can you post the url here?

This site uses plain text HTTP by design, please do not be alarmed

Do you want to remove only steam entries or all wine entries?

You can then consider removing all desktop entries under ~/.local/share/applications/wine

rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine

• Please proceed with caution. I provide this information as-is in good faith without warranty or liability.

Then all you need to do is remove ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Steam.

[night raven]

damn bro how is this thread so long it's all literally in one directory 💀

[stone sedge]

You may need to restart your desktop environment.

[night raven]

if you wanna remove specific apps, go to ~/.local/share/applications and search for the names of the applications in the file manager

then just delete any .desktop files associated with the application

like bro said you'll have to restart Plasma

for as long as I've known, Plasma has always been weird with desktop files

it should but it isn't necessary to reboot the whole computer

alt+f2 > r should do the trick

or logging out and logging back in

maybe check /usr/share/applications too and search for the offending applications

yes :joyyy:

[stone sedge]

This path is owned by root, normally a regular user application won't have permission to write files here.

[night raven]

yes

I know

no? just delete anything you don't want showing up in the Application Menu

[stone sedge]

The following command can be used to check for stray files

pacman -Qo /usr/share/applications/* 

[night raven]

this is literally all a .desktop file contains

[stone sedge]

Find out more about the XDG Desktop Entry Specification here

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries
• https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

pacman -Qo /usr/share/applications/* | grep -v 'owned'

[night raven]

it's in ~/.local/share/applications/wine

[stone sedge]

This means that the directory is all korrect.

[night raven]

list of file types

and associating them with applications

unix alternative to file extensiosn

you should leave it alone lul

it's not really relevant to deleting the steam desktop entry regardless

wouldn't affect anything

change title

damn I can't type

restart plasma

[stone sedge]

tar -zc ~/.local/share/applications | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io   

[night raven]

what does that even do

are you sure you deleted every .desktop file associated with Steam in the wine folder?

either Proton has it's own .desktop file directory, or Plasma is just keeping it in the entries for some reason

I've had the latter happen to me before back when I was on Plasma so I wouldn't be surprised about that

[stone sedge]

 [[ -d ~/.desktop ]] && ls -R ~/.desktop 

ls - list directory contents

   -R, --recursive
          list subdirectories recursively

[night raven]

wait

wouldn't that remove every .desktop file

oh nvm

[stone sedge]

Forgive the uncivilness in my language, however this statement is cognitively challenged.

[stone sedge]

Please see the man page of ls

[night raven]

wait what

I've seen you in this server for a while

how are you new

oh

[stone sedge]

The `.desktop' directory is a legacy path for desktop files.

Sorry for the confusion, I would like you to send us the output of the previous command

[[ -d ~/.desktop ]] && ls -R ~/.desktop 

[night raven]

try this cd ~/.local/share/applications && ls -R | grep steam

if nothing comes up try capitalizing the S in steam

[stone sedge]

The user does not have a desktop file in this directory containing steam.

[night raven]

just triple checking

no

that's in /usr/share/applications

and that command doesn't remove anything

it's just searching for anything for anything with steam in the name

yeah that's probably a Plasma moment

[stone sedge]

Please run the following command and post the outupt

ls -R ~/.desktop

[night raven]

I've literally never even heard of ~/.desktop being a thing before this thread

must've been depreciated 30 bajillion years ago

[stone sedge]

Please run the following command and post the output

find -name "*.desktop" -print0 | xargs -0 -P0 grep '[Ss]team' | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

grep -R '[Ss]team' /usr/local/share/applications

Can you post a screenshot of the said menu entry?

Sorry for the confusion, can you post the screenshot of the said KDE menu entry

Just as you have done here

What application does this menu belong to?

ls -R ~/Desktop

Can you post the output of

 python -c 'from gi.repository import Gio; all_apps = Gio.AppInfo.get_all(); [print(f"{app.get_display_name():20}: {app.get_executable()}") for app in all_apps]' |  curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io 

from gi.repository import Gio

all_apps = Gio.AppInfo.get_all(); 

for app in all_apps:
    try:
        print(f"{app.get_display_name():20}: {app.get_icon().get_names()}")
    except:
        print(f"{app.get_display_name()}")

Please save the above script as list_icons.py, then run

python list_icons.py |  curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

There is nothing more I can do except suggesting a cleanup of ~/.cache.

[livid veldt]

How to remove old entries from start menu kde plasma on arch linux? (Solved)