Afternoon, gang.
I don’t quite know HOW, but I seem to have a replicant of the clock stuck on the left-hand edge of my desktop. No ‘handle’ showing, so no way to drag it to the Trash. No apparent way to move it either…all I can do with it is click to cycle through the various colour/theme options.
Any ideas how I can get shot of it? TIA.
Mike. 
From the User Guide on Replicants:
Should you experience difficulties with a Replicant on the Desktop and just can’t get rid of it, delete
~/config/settings/Tracker/tracker_shelf. Unfortunately, this will remove all Replicants from the Desktop.
Thank 'ee kindly, sir. Yes, that seems to have fixed it; can’t quite figure out what happened there, since that’s the first replicant that’s given me problems. Most of them behave themselves…
Ah, well. I’ll file that link away for future reference.
Cheers!
Mike. 
I just found ‘repliman’, which seems to allow removing zombie replicants.
I am very glad that this ‘repliman’ utility exist. After a recent update (I´m running a Nightly release hrev59636) my screen resolution got messed up and one of the replicants I had on the desktop got partially (unfortunately, exactly the part with the handle) moved outside of the screen visible area.
I wanted to try @humdinger suggestion to delete the tracker_shelf but strangely, I don´t seem to have one? I´ve tried deleting through terminal “rmfr /boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/tracker_shelf , but when I got no confirmation message I went on a hunt:
tracker_shelf is definitely where Tracker saves the data of replicants on the Desktop. The “rm” command in Terminal doesn’t normally confirm its actions, so I assume you actually did delete the file, and thus didn’t find it anymore when looking into the folder…
Note, Tracker still shows the replicants on the Desktop after deleting the file. You’ll need to restart Tracker, easiest with ProcessController I’d say.
