I installed a website as a webapp in GNOME Web (flatpak) and removed it in Web, but it’s still showing in GNOME Shell’s overview. I hunted my machine for any possible .desktop file that might exist and was unable to find anything. I have checked all the possible locations and have come up with nothing.
Any ideas?
Are you using GNOME Web from Fedora’s remote? I have GNOME Web from Flathub, on Silverblue, and couldn’t reproduce your issue.
I wonder if temporarily uninstalling the Flatpak app, including data, would clean up the residual desktop file as well.
It’s the flatpak from Flathub. Although I was trying to not go through the install/uninstall route, I realize that may be the only way.
That command gives me nothing different than find . -name “*.desktop”; so, still no .desktop file related to the still present webapp.
I hope this doesn’t come across as a shameless plug, but I think it might help.
I got so sick of trying to hunt down .desktop files and identify why and when GNOME displays them and does not, I made an extension for it:
This will open whatever .desktop file is backing the entry in the overview (if there is one) using GNOME’s own logic.
Shameless plug or not, this is an amazing solution and fixed my issue… The .desktop file for some reason was not following Web’s webapp naming conventions and hiding in plain sight!
This should be a default extension for GNOME Shell, sir; excellent work.