unable to delete items in menulibre

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

If you move a previously undeletable item up or down, outside it's group - the delete button becomes available. Confirmation dialogue shows. This lets you confirm the deletion but nothing actually happens.

I believe it might help if you pointed out which launcher you are trying to delete; is it a system-created one? User-created? Created by another application? Where is the .desktop file for the launcher located?

I tried to delete half a dozen or so - the only ones that I could 'really' delete were items that I had created.

Logging out and back in again seems to "fix" the main menu updating.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1513590

Instead of deleting the launcher (indeed, it's a system-wide launcher), try making it hidden using the "Hide from menus" option.

Right - however.

Move an undeleteable item up or down outside it's category - then you can delete it.

no - seems it just appears to ask the right questions - nothing gets deleted

Correct. Other menu editors may use "delete" as the terminology, but they are only hiding the launcher from the menus. MenuLibre is functioning correctly in this case.

This also affects me with Xubuntu 16.04 up-to-date.
The 'delete item' button is not available (greyed out) and I hover over it, it says I don't have the permissions to do so.
Moving an item out of its category shows the delete button available but when it is pressed (and after confirmation that you want to delete), the item is still there and the delete button not available again.

This is annoying, I have duplicate menu items (all LibreOffice entrances) and wish to delete them.

I have the same problem, running GalliumOS 3.0. I noticed that the menu items that don't delete automatically when the software is deleted are all from 'outside' the usual realm of packages.

I'm sorry I'm new so I might not be using the correct terms, but for example when I deleted midori the menu item for midori didn't delete from menulibre, but I had installed it via snapd instead of synaptic. I had similar situations with software installed via methods other than synaptic or app grid.

I realize this is an old bug, but I thought I would mention it just in case it helps.

Hello,i am beeing facing a problem whit MenuLibre,i deleted him yestersde«ay but i forgot to eliminate the launchuer that has unity-3d installed ,i reinstalled menulibre to delete the launchuer that i created for unity and it is appearing there...I cant remove from the show applications ,im using Ubuntu version 20.04.3 LTS

Sorry for some errors i made,my english is not fluent,and like sometimes i forgot to speel words !!