Ubuntu – Remove Chrome shortcuts from app menu

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Anyone knows how to remove "web apps" I made in Chrome using menu => extra => create shortcuts (no real Chrome apps) from the app menu in Ubuntu? When right-clicking on a normal app (Thunderbird in this case), I see this:

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I use Dutch language but I think it's obvious: note the "DeĂŻnstalleren" (uninstall) button next to the start button. But, when I right-click on a Chrome web app (which I made from the menu => extra => create shortcuts), in this case Facebook, it shows me this:

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Note the difference? No uninstall option. Can I achieve this in another way? Thanks in advance!

P.S.: I'm not a professional. I use Ubuntu three days now. Please keep it simple for me. 🙂

Best Answer

Remove it from Chrome.

Go to chrome://apps, right click the app you want to remove and select Remove from Chrome.

Those are Chrome desktop apps, not Ubuntu apps installed through Software Center or from deb package. That's why you can't remove them from Unity.

If it doesn't work, go to ~/.local/share/applications and look there for specific desktop files by ID. For example:

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has the shortcut chrome-njkkjobcechefaoknodniidfjapgfoco-Default.desktop

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