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I installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 on a Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D and I am using it with the gnome classic metacity window manager. I then added the Google repositories on the sources directory in /etc/apt following the instructions from this answer here:

https://askubuntu.com/a/510186/17702

After installation, I run google-chrome-unstable from my Alt+F2 menu, and everything works fine, except the icon is not found at the bottom of the screen. See screenshot:

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Any ideas how to get it to show the icon?

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Google-chrome is famous for its problems with .desktop files and their icons, especially if you had an other version installed before.

Since you installed it from a .deb file, an icon must be installed. Most certainly, there must be an old, outdated or incorrect .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications causing the "disconnection".

Local .desktop files "overrule" global ones, therefore, if there is a local .desktop that does not "match" (the current version of) a globally installed application, a variety of symptoms can occur. An iconless appearance is one of them.

What do do

Since you technically don't need local .desktop files of a globally installed applications (unless you want do make modifications to its behaviour), you can safely remove all .desktop files, referring to google-chrome, in ~/.local/share/applications. Simply browse to the directory and remove all .desktop files of google-chrome or webapps, calling google-chrome. Then log out and back in and run the application again to see if it is fixed.

If you are having doubts on a specific .desktop file, make it executable to make it show its icon and the correct "interface" name (as defined in the line Name= inside the .desktop file).

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  • It turns out there were a bunch of .desktop files there. I removed them with this command rm ~/.local/share/applications/chrome*.desktop, then logged out and back it, but still no icon. – 719016 Apr 01 '15 at 14:50
  • @719016 Please see if there are multiple chrome .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Probably there are, but if not, please make the .desktop file executable and see if it shows its icon. – Jacob Vlijm Apr 01 '15 at 19:53