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Cinnamon – Remove Launcher from Menu

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

It happens to everybody at some point. When you created a desktop launcher it asked if you wanted to add it to the menu and now you need to remove launcher from menu. Maybe you don’t need the app anymore? Maybe you learned you can’t edit the contents of that launcher? Reason doesn’t matter. What does matter is how Cinnamon hides removal. I will be using Cinnamon on Manjaro for this article. I’ve written about Manjaro many times before. Any Linux distro using Cinnamon desktop should function the same.

Naturally they couldn’t leave this feature on the right-click menu where everyone looks.

No remove option found

The Path to Removal

Actually calling this “removal” is a bit of a stretch. Ever since 1TB disk drives started selling for $50 or less, the entire Linux community latched on to the obesity principal formerly associated with Microsoft. You don’t actually remove it from the menu, and system, you just can’t see it on the menu anymore.

Right click on Menu button

Choose Configure.

Choose Menu

Click the “Open the menu editor” button

In the list at the left, choose the menu category your launcher is under. Most are added to “Other” initially.

Scroll the submenu list down to locate your item and uncheck the box.

Click “Close” then close the configure dialog. All hidden now.

This is how you remove launcher from menu. It should be obvious that you can change what items are where with this editor as well.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.