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xdg-desktop-menu: Uninstall an application from the desktop menu system.
$ xdg-desktop-menu uninstall ${filename-desktop}
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The command you provided, "xdg-desktop-menu uninstall ${filename-desktop}", is used to uninstall a desktop entry from the system using the xdg-desktop-menu utility.

Here's a breakdown of what each part of the command does:

  1. "xdg-desktop-menu": It is the name of the command-line utility. xdg-desktop-menu is a part of the xdg-utils package, which provides a set of utilities for integrating applications with desktop environments.

  2. "uninstall": It is an argument passed to the xdg-desktop-menu utility, indicating that we want to uninstall the specified desktop entry.

  3. "${filename-desktop}": It is a variable that should be replaced with the actual filename of the desktop entry that you wish to uninstall. The "-desktop" suffix is commonly used to denote the file extension for desktop entries.

In summary, this command uninstalls a specific desktop entry from the system by using the xdg-desktop-menu utility, with the filename of the entry provided as an argument.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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