Ubuntu – How to remove icon of uninstalled application from application lens in Dash

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I installed cardapio and its icon was in launcher as well in application lens in dash.
When I unistalled cardapio, its icon vanished from the launcher (as it should) but the icon is still present in application lens in Dash.
Is there a way to get rid of it?

Best Answer

Well, with help from this askubuntu question I carried out the suggestion of florian-diesch to

grep cardapio ~/.local/share/applications/*

and there was cardapio.desktop. I deleted it and now the cardapio icon does not show up any more among the applications in dash.

Thank you all for your willingness to help me solve my problem.

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