How to remove a 'perspective' that is not present anymore in Eclipse?

Sometimes it might happen that you have a perspective from a plugin that still is in Eclipse, now how to get rid of it? Delete in Eclipse does not work. (v3.4).

  1. Close Eclipse
  2. Goto your workspace (on disk)
  3. Open .metadata -> .plugins -> org.eclipse.ui.workbench -> workbench.xml
  4. Look for the perspective tag with the name of the perspective to remove
  5. Remove the element (and its contents)
  6. Start Eclipse again
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