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Google Chrome icon shows some other name on its shortcut. It shows the name of some Chrome Extension. Why is this the case and how to resolve it?

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Lorenz Keel
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    Probably desktop entry for Screen Recorder is malformed and contains Chrome's icon in Icon meta. What is the output of grep -iR -A6 ~/.local/share/applications? – Kulfy Feb 21 '22 at 16:54
  • I hope it is safe to do this? The current output is "grep: .gvfs: Permission denied", and after that the program is still running. Should I run it with super user permissions? – A J Feb 21 '22 at 17:36
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    Damn!! I missed the pattern to be searched. It should be grep -iR -A6 "Screen Recorder" ~/.local/share/applications. Don't use superuser/root account in any case. – Kulfy Feb 21 '22 at 17:43
  • The output is something like the following: google-chrome.desktop:Name=Screen Recorder - Scre.io google-chrome.desktop-Icon=google-chrome google-chrome.desktop-Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome --enable-crashpad Followed by some more lines... – A J Feb 22 '22 at 08:39
  • There you go. Icon meta has google-chrome as the value and thus the problem. You can simply edit that .desktop file with any text editor like nano, vim or even gedit to change values. See https://askubuntu.com/q/722179. After changing values, reload the shell. See https://askubuntu.com/a/367243 – Kulfy Feb 26 '22 at 08:40
  • How did this automatically get changed in the first place? – A J Mar 01 '22 at 17:19

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