I confirmed the 4 lines mentioned above are related to the problem of hiding items in the games menu. I was able to workaround the issue by removing the 4 lines in question from the mentioned file:
sudo cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.bak sudo sensible-editor /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu That caused lots of sub-menus to Games to appear, but at least hiding games started working. Mark -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-menus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413728 Title: alacarte does not remove main menu item To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-menus/+bug/413728/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs