I am using Ubuntu and GNOME Do and have some bad shortcuts (they even have a grey X icon ) that I can't figure out and delete from the list.
I thought GNOME Do has some cache but its been a while and they are still there.
I deleted the ~/local/share/gnome-do folder and still no success.
Any ideas how to clear them from the list?
Maybe you have created shortcuts by some menu/shortcut editor, in my case is alacarte. I found that when I remove shortcuts from menu by alacarte, it does not remove .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ but only set flag hidden=True which gnome-do somehow does not recognize this so it still display that shortcut. So make sure that .desktop file was deleted along with removing ~/.local/share/gnome-do/ directory
None of the other answers worked for me.
I found that deleting ~/.gtk-bookmarks cleared them out. It is where older versions of ubuntu/nautalus(?) stored your bookmarks. However, after doing this I noticed that Gnome DO wasn't picking up my new shortcuts. I had to add a symlink to the new location.
ln -nsf ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks .gtk-bookmarks
# => .gtk-bookmarks -> /home/[USER]/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
Removing the ~/.local/share/gnome-do/ directory worked for me, but you have to make sure you terminate gnome-do before doing so...
Probably it's a little bit a brute-force way to do it, but removing (renaming) the
~/.local/share/gnome-do
folder worked for me.
I do not use personally gnome-do, but I found How to clear the icon cache? which says:
When you change desktop files (depending on how you do it) for some reason, GNOME decides to keep copy of the old one around but just hide it. Do sees both the old and new copies. Delete the old ones and you should be good to go.
Culprit for me turned out to be in: ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers
Open ~/.local/share/applications/ and find files with error names (like your error). Delete them.
Restart gnome-do or the system.
