Icons Messed Up in Qubes Menu after Running Bleach Bit

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I ran bleachbit in dom0. Now, under Q Settings Other, there are multiple icons that are just blank.

How do I find them and get rid of them?

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Can someone offer suggestiosn? This is under the “Other” Menu and I’m not sure how to rebuild it or even where to look.

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out of curiousity, why run bleachbit in dom0?

maybe kill your xfce4-panel and restart it , not sure what “Q settings Other” is

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Did you try this?

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p.s.: parulin beat me to it :+1:

First of all, it is always a good practice to have a backup before doing major changes. So if you do not have a backup, I recommend you to do it now.

qvm-appmenus(1) might help you. I would recommend you to read its manual:

man qvm-appmenus

To rebuild all menu entries, you have to do this:

qvm-appmenus --all --update --force

It would most likely undo all of your bleachbit modifications. But I have not used bleachbit personally. So I am not 100 percent certain. Please backup anything you would consider important before running it.

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i wanted to clean it up

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This did not work.

These are items under “Settings” and then “Other” that are affected.

The command you listed rebuilds the menus under the VM list only.

There is probably a directory containing the items in other and I can manually alter it but don’t know where to go.

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this doesn’t help me with the new 4.2 menus under Q Settings Other

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.desktop files are stored in either of the following locations:

~/.local/share/applications
/usr/share/applications

For example:
Qubes Application Menu -> Settings -> Other -> Xterm should be: /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop
Qubes Application Menu -> Settings -> Qubes Tools -> Qubes Update should be: /usr/share/applications/qubes-update-gui.desktop

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i have “gm” for graphic magic listed 3 times under other with no icon. it opens once. nothing about gm is under usr/share/applications

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Also check:
/usr/local/share/applications
It is usually empty

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it’s empty, didn’t change it

i’d rather not have 3 slots for gm with no icons in that menu. it looks ugly and only 1 functions.

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This is the last trick I could think of:

Search for all desktop files containing gm

grep -Rnw {/usr,/usr/local,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop -e 'gm'

Otherwise I am out of clues and I hope the others could help

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it was under the .local

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I guess you know what your doing, I don’t. best advice is just never touch dom0,
enough other things to break

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