Uninstalled Items Stuck In Whisker Menu

[johnywhy]

After uninstall of Chromium and Chrome, both are still in whisker menu.
How to fix?

[MrEen]

A reboot or log out/in might fix that.

[johnywhy]

nope

Libre editor tells me:

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Invalid desktop files detected. 		
Parsing Errors:

/home/johny/.local/share/applications/chrome-aohghmighlieiainnegkcijnfilokake-Default.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/chrome-apdfllckaahabafndbhieahigkjlhalf-Default.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/chrome-blpcfgokakmgnkcojhhkbfbldkacnbeo-Default.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/chrome-pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia-Default.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
/home/johny/.local/share/applications/userapp-Light-74OOMZ.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openjdk-11-policytool.desktop

[JerryF]

Have you tried right-clicking on them to see if there are any options to remove, delete, or uninstall each one?

[johnywhy]

Have you tried right-clicking on them to see if there are any options to remove, delete, or uninstall each one?

tried that, there isn't .

I guess i can just delete the chrome/chromium items from the files mentioned by Libre editor, correct?

I'm concerned that won't be enough-- chrome/chromium may have left other gunk in my OS. Is there any other manual or auto cleanup i can do?

THX

[Sir Charles]

Right-click on the menu icon itself and choose " Edit applications" (or some such option). Click your way to the applications in question in the left pane. Delete them by clicking "Delete" on the toolbar. Or hide the ones you want by clicking "Hide" in the right pane.

[johnywhy]

thx Marziano, but they are not listed in the menu edit.
but they are listed in error message displayed by menu editor (shown above)

[Sir Charles]

Sorry, I overlooked that.

[MrEen]

Open Thunar, navigate to /home/johny/.local/share/applications/ right click on chromium-browser.desktop and choose Delete. Do the same for google-chrome.desktop.

As I don't know what those other chromium entries are, I won't suggest deleting those at this time.

I believe the menu will update immediately. Can't remember.

[DAMIEN1307]

these terminal commands may be helpful in removing residual crap...dont for get to reboot thereafter...DAMIEN

do these one at a time, dont worry if the first dpkg -l says error etc...just means nothing is there is all...

sudo apt autoremove

dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs dpkg --purge

dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge