How to clear the Lost & Found entry in the KDE Application Menu?

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Running the latest TW (I update daily), on my laptop.

So in the KDE Plasma Application Menu (and Application Launcher and Application Dashboard), there is an entry named, Lost & Found. When I highlight it, it shows the entry “XScreenSaver” (see screenshot below). I’ve done a search for the lost+found sub-directory on the system, but not found.

How do I clear that XScreenSaver entry in the Lost & Found section?
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# find / -iname lost+found -type d
find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied
find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
#

Screenshot:

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This is a wrong entry in your application menu (the Lost&Found menu entry does not exist on a fresh system. So you have manually created it in some way…). You need to remove it via kmenuedit (right-click on application menu starter or execute kmenuedit via terminal).

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Sorry but this is nonsense…the sorting does not influence menu content itself. It only influences the order of menu entrys (as the name of the setting may already suggest).

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Not on an untinkered Tumbleweed…

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D’oh, it just rearranges it in the menu…my bad.

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Isn’t Lost & Found on the menu because there’s no category for the apps?

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Thanks @hui !! … I fired up the menu editor, right-clicked on the Lost & Found entry and selected Delete - gone now.

I have no idea how that entry got there, and I certainly don’t remember why I would ever want it there. When I boot my desktop machine later, I’ll check it for the entry.

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I fired up a VM to check. The “Lost & Found” menu entry is really filled by XScreensaver (wheras this app should be in “Screensaver” category).

“Lost & Found” is normally not visible in the menu. Only when app devs failed to create proper desktop files with categories…

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This is how the entry “should” be located when the app devs did proper work…
The screensaver menu entry exists already but is invisible as long as there is no app entry in it…

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I had a thought … I recently logged in using X11 IceWM environment, and fired up XScreensaver, then selected its settings page.

I set XScreensaveer to Disabled, thinking that might have caused it … logged out and then logged back in with KDE Plasma, but the Lost & Found entry isn’t there.
No problem - I guess it will be a mystery.

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On my Menu Editor, XScreensaver entry is not there … (I guess I can add it).

But I never use a screensaver on my laptop - I have “Sleep mode” set for 10 minutes, so no need for a screensaver :slightly_smiling_face:

xs

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Thats why i wrote, that the XScreensaver entry “should” be there. I moved the menu entry for the screenshot to this position to ilustrate it…

Same here. Screensavers are a relict from decades ago and have no useful purpose nowadays IMHO. It is way more efficient to use the power saving options of modern desktop environments…

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