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I wanted to know how I could remove MenuLibre and all changes I did with it. I only used it to change the icons of my applications, but I would now like to change all my icons to a new theme. When I do this, I can only change the icons, that I didn't change with MenuLibre. When I removed Menulibre using

sudo apt-get remove menulibre

it removed the programm, but the icons were still the same. I also tried reinstalling it and simply deleting the image I added for the application. But instead of showing the icon of my current icon-theme, now the icon for an unspecified program was shown. I also tried removing it with:

sudo apt-get purge menulibre

but it still would not work.

I hope there is a way to fix it, so that I don't always have to change every single icon when I like to change my icon-theme.

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lenala
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What Menulibre does is copy the global .desktopfile of an application, in /usr/share/applications, to ~/.local/share/applicationsand edit the local one. The local one in ~/.local/share/applications will then "overrule" the global one.

To revert, simply remove the corresponding .desktopfile(s) in ~/.local/share/applications, log out and back in. Dash and and the Unity Launcher will then use the global one in /usr/share/applications again.

~/.localis a hidden directory by default. Press (in your home directory) Ctrl+H to make it visible.

Note

Editing global .desktop files is bad practice and won't help you in this case.

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Jacob Vlijm
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