How to remove uninstalled wine app icons from unity dash?

Question

I installed LAN Messenger (for Windows) using wine but turns out LAN Messenger is also available for linux as well. So..

• I uninstalled LAN Messenger from wine.
• I also removed wine.
• deleted the .wine directory.
• after that sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get autoclean.
• then I installed LAN Messenger using dpkg -i pkgname.deb and it installed successfully.

The problem is that now I get this in dash:

Any Help is highly appreciated.

[NOTE] I am using ubuntu 12.10

Solution

I fixed it:

• open terminal and cd ~/.local/share/applications.
• ls -a and there were few wine-*** files and a folder wine.
• now you can do a selective remove or; in my case; delete all those files using rm -rf wine*

Problem solved!

curtsy: https://askubuntu.com/a/71245/241969

Comments

[John]

You don't have to delete everything as you may lose other useful icons too. Inside ~/.local/share/applications/wine/programs there are folders regarding each one of your wine apps. Delete the unwanted ones and keep the rest.

[SMR]

@John Thanks for pointing that out. Updated the answer.

[Arul]

Awesome, if you want to remove all the icons which we have instaled using wine, this is the technique to follow...Thanks, man.