I don't know why I've been having so many problems with gvim lately, but now I can't start it from the launcher. I click on it, and it glows and pulsates for awhile, but after a few seconds it stops pulsating and nothing happens.
I created the launcher icon by opening gvim, right-clicking on it and clicking "Lock to Launcher". I've tried opening it through nautilus with the right-click context menu, and I've tried running it through the terminal. Both times I would right-click on the icon and click "Lock to Launcher". Both methods have the same result.
Best Answer
I run into the same problem, and solved it by the steps below.
rm ~/.local/share/applications/gvim.desktop
gvim
in terminal and lock 'gvim' to ubuntu dash again.reference: How to remove icons/shortcuts from Unity menu?