I installed gimp from macports and uninstalled it (port uninstall gimp) when I found its not well maintained as gimp released its native mac build. But the gimp icon in launchpad didn't go away. How can I force remove the gimp's leftover launchpad icon? I tried moving it to trash and failed. I also tried to wiggle the launchpad icons to click on the 'x' mark but I didn't find 'x' mark on it. OSX 10.9.2 MacBook Air.
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First make sure you don't really have three copies of the Application. You can use spotlight to clean out any duplicates and keep one copy of the application mounted.
Once that is resolved, you can delete the duplicates from Launchpad one by one; if they all go, just reinstall Skype.
You can also force Launchpad to recreate its database, if it is corrupt, or just to refresh the apps alphabetically by using this hack:
- run Terminal
- execute
sudo rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db - execute
sudo killall Dockto restart Dock and Launchpad
Just be aware that you will use any user-defined grouping/sorting etc. this way.
Another wonderful high-level (and safe with undos and backups) GUI solution is Launchpad control, which is a system preference panel.
Launchpad Manager
Launchpad Manager will allow you to delete any app from your Launchpad. Just open it, select Launchpad (or any other app) and ⌘ cmd+⌫ backspace.
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Best Answer
Launchpad Manager
Launchpad Manager will allow you to delete any app from your Launchpad. Just open it, select GIMP and ⌘⌫.