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Just migrated from Windows.

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

One of the reasons why I migrated was the lure of being able to customize everything about the GUI.

Recently I was looking at some image files and installed Image Magick. It's now showing on "Show Applications". I don't like the icon so I wanted to remove it, but I was told that it's really important because of some dependencies (weird, because I had to install it first). So, I would like to know if I can just make it not show up in "Show Applications". That'd be useful, because there's a lot of other defaults apps that I don't use but don't want to mess around with.

Thank you for your attention.

Edit:

For anyone who googles this, the solution I went with was to backup the .desktop files under ./usr/share/applications, and then delete the originals. It's not a perfect solutions. Updates bring them back. Snap apps (what you install from the "Ubuntu Software" app) can be found in .var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications. Some software that you install won't be in either. To find those, to the root folder with the Files app, then search for *.desktop. You can then right-click the file in question and press on "Open Item Location."

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You can do it easily by removing a desktop file from /usr/share/applications.

But it will appear again if the package gets an update.

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