GNOME - How to remove app launchers from the activities menu
App launchers shown in GNOME Activities are located either in /usr/share/applications/
or ~/.local/share/applications/
as .desktop
files.
You can hide an individual app launcher from Activities by adding an extra NoDisplay=true
line to the corresponding .desktop
file.
It is generally not advisable to edit the .desktop
file located in /usr/share/applications/
. Instead copy the file to ~/.local/share/applications/
first and make the change to the copied file.
If you can't find the right .desktop
file in any of the two locations mentioned above, try /usr/local/share/applications
too.
The GUI way could be to install "Alacarte". It's super easy to manage and remove app launchers from the menu.