How do I get rid of unusable application icon on launcher?

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 01:14, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I opened a CLI, started Netbeans, locked Netbeans to the desktop

It was not necessary to do that before editing the file, the file was
there whether you locked it to the launcher or not.

>, closed Netbeans. From the CLI, I changed directory to ~/.local/share/applications, edited apache_netbeans_ide_11_0.desktop, changed all occurrences of /home/owen/netbeans-11 to /home/owen/netbeans/netbeans-11, saved apache_netbeans_ide_11_0.desktop and closed the editor.
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> Netbeans appears to open and configure itself as it would if I started it from the CLI.

Excellent.

Colin