Old entries are still displayed

[p00f]

Desktop entries from uninstalled programs are still displayed in the list, even after running sudo update-desktop-databse and deleting the launcher history file

For example, I get an entry for Covergrid here even after uninstalling it

On the top you can see that sed can't find the desktop file, which probably comes from here

sway-launcher-desktop/sway-launcher-desktop.sh

Line 68 in 74ed255

description=$(sed -ne '/^Comment=/{s/^Comment=//;p;q}' "$1")

Can I clear it somehow?

[p00f]

@Biont where are the desktop entries taken from?

[Biont]

I find it very strange that this happens after deleting the history file - because that's the only place where stale entries would be coming from. Are you using multiple providers and maybe missed one @p00f ?

The entries are read using this configuration: ${XDG_DATA_HOME-${HOME}/.local/share}:${XDG_DATA_DIRS-/usr/local/share:/usr/share}
There's no cache or anything at play here.

[p00f]

I add HIST_FILE="~/.local/state/swaylauncher_history" as an argument (because latest XDG spec says logs and history go to $XDG_STATE_HOME which is ~/.local/state). When I removed that argument and let it save in ~/.cache, the stale entries are gone.

Also earlier there were some duplicate entries, which are gone now too

[maricn]

fixed by #58 - you can sway-launcher-desktop purge since v1.6.0

[Biont]

Thanks @maricn

I tracked the useful remark about XDG_STATE_HOME in #65 so we can close here