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#1 2009-03-29 16:55:07

gabscic
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Registered: 2008-11-15
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[SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Hi there people, I'm having somewhat of a problem here. I installed the firefox web browser on my system only for testing, I don't really like it. After a while I issued the 'pacman -Rd firefox' command to uninstall it. Issuing 'pacman -Q | grep firefox' gives me nothing, so I take it firefox has been uninstalled. Thing is, krunner is still showing it, and if I accidentaly try to run firefox my system freezes for a while. After it unfreezes, I cannot use alt+f2: it is gone for good. So I have to reboot my system to get alt+f2 back again. The thing is, how can I make firefox disappear for good?Thanks in advance for any help.

Last edited by gabscic (2009-03-30 15:15:26)

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#2 2009-03-29 17:09:12

gabscic
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Registered: 2008-11-15
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Re: [SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Apparently, not only krunner is showing firefox installed. My Kmenu is also showing it installed there. How can I correctly uninstall firefox? Is it just 'pacman -Rd firefox'?

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#3 2009-03-30 01:33:19

JooBlixlarz
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Registered: 2008-12-01
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Re: [SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Try using kmenuedit to look at the hidden folder of the menu; dead links may be hiding in there.


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#4 2009-03-30 14:58:38

gabscic
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Re: [SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Managed to find something here. I tried kmenuedit as you said. So I checked the "Show hidden entries" box under 'Settings -> Configure KDE Menu Editor -> Misc',  and then a '.hidden' folder appeared on the menu entries. Inside that folder I can see my two firefox entries (Firefox and Firefox - Safe Mode). I deleted them, but they keep respawning everytime. Tried issuing kmenuedit as root, but it only gives me an error message, so I don't think I can delete it as root. Using "Find Files/Folders" doesn't give me any mozilla or firefox entry on my system. I have no idea where firefox has put itself into in such a ninja way...

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#5 2009-03-30 15:09:00

gabscic
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Registered: 2008-11-15
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Re: [SOLVED] krunner shows uninstalled programs

Well, I managed to find it here. Under '~/.local/share/applications' I had two entries, firefox.desktop and firefox-safe.desktop. I removed both and now it's not appearing anymore under kmenu and krunner. Guess I can mark it as SOLVED now, although now I do not know if there are any other firefox remains around my system. Thanks for the help.

Last edited by gabscic (2009-03-30 15:15:04)

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