Re: Odd Jessie Package Programs Shown in Gnome?
On 2015-03-10, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> The gnome activities show all applications produces three pages of
> program icons many of which are gray gear wheel icons. I clicked on a
> few which did nothing. Trying apt-cache show on some of these icons'
> names I determined they related to screen savers.
>
> Can I get rid of them?
I don't see the problem you're seeing, but in your position I would
check for cruft under /usr/share/applications/ and
~/.local/share/applications/. In the former case, run
dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/*
and look for files which belong to no package.
>
> I realize that selecting show frequent applications displays only icons
> of programs I have used. But frequent implies transient. As I use more
> and more programs some may be used infrequently. Will rarely used
> programs disappear from the list of frequent applications?
I suppose so. We haven't been using Jessie long enough to find out. :-)
>
> A minor quibble. So far Jessie is very nice.
+1
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Liam
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