How can I clear bad shorcuts from gnome-do cache?

Question

I am using ubuntu and gnome-do and have in my gnome-do some bad shortcuts ( they even have a grey X icon ) that i cant figure out how to delete from the list. I thought gnome do has some cache but its been a while and they are still there :(

Any ideas how to clear them from the list ?

Update: I deleted the ~/local/share/gnome-do folder and still no success

Answer 1

Maybe you have created shortcuts by some menu/shortcut editor, in my case is alacarte. I found that when I remove shortcuts from menu by alacarte, it does not remove .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ but only set flag hidden=True which gnome-do somehow does not recognize this so it still display that shortcut. So make sure that .desktop file was deleted along with removing ~/.local/share/gnome-do/ directory

Answer 2

Probably it's a little bit a brute-force way to do it, but removing (renaming) the

~/.local/share/gnome-do

folder worked for me.

Answer 3

I do not use personally gnome-do, but I found How to clear the icon cache? which says:

When you change desktop files (depending on how you do it) for some reason, GNOME decides to keep copy of the old one around but just hide it. Do sees both the old and new copies. Delete the old ones and you should be good to go.

Culprit for me turned out to be in: ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers

Answer 4

Removing the ~/.local/share/gnome-do/ directory worked for me, but you have to make sure you terminate gnome-do before doing so...

Answer 5

Open ./local/share/applications/ and find files with error names (like your error). Delete them.

Restart gnome-do or the system.