There are way more entries in both of those directories than show up in
the settings manager, but since I can't tell which is which, I suppose
I'll have to trust the software.
Having been in software development for over 34 years, I can assure you
that is not a comforting thought.
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The package manager is usually able to clean up obsolete system files.
However, files in the user's home directory will stay untouched.
As I already mentioned, the settings manager is a simple GUI application
and its job is to display a subset of the installed and manually created
launchers
Sounds good. I found the extra junk and deleted it and that seems to
work.
Thanks.
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Title:
settings manager contains entries (icons) that are
Maybe the alternative menu editor alacarte does the job better. If you
want to edit a specific application launcher manually via text editor,
then go ahead and try to locate it in /usr/share/applications (global
ones) or ~/.local/share/applications (user ones).
So, do we agree that there is no
Thank you for your report. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in the
settings manager.
Xubuntu 14.04 installs the easy-to-use menu editor menulibre by
default and you can use this editor to create/edit/hide application
launchers. Furthermore, you can install the gksu package if some
application
There are some problems with this answer:
menulibre does not work properly at all. I have filed a bug about this.
menulibre only edits the main menu (mouse icon / applications menu), not
any other menu AFAICT.
The nvidia settings app can and does run with pkexec, but the point is
that the
