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I am trying to correct the icon and the display name of Arduino IDE in my launcher. I used to lock on the sketch of Arduino IDE 1.6.3 in 7 April into the launcher. It didn't work as I expected so I removed it and I reinstalled the old version of Arduino IDE with this command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core

The problem here is whenever I opened the Arduino IDE, it still showed me the name of sketch and Arduino 1.6.3 instead of just Arduino IDE.

How to remove the old one and correct the display icon here!

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Raphaël VO
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Either in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications, a "left over" .desktop file must be left behind.

Remove the duplicate desktop file(s), log out and back in and it should be fixed. If you are having doubts on which is the right one to remove: .desktop files show their icon once you make them executable. You can also look inside the file (drag it over an opened gedit window).

File- names of the .desktop files can be confusing, since the name you see in Dash can (and will) be different from the name in Dash; in Dash, you see the name, defined in the Name= line of the file.

Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/516346/72216

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  • I checked in ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications but I saw only one entry for Arduino as I mentioned above, in local, there is nothing similar with the one that I want to remove – Raphaël VO Apr 08 '15 at 10:42
  • @ThoVo You mean in ~/.local/share/applications? You can remove that one, since you must have one in /usr/share/applications, looking at the way you installed it (globally). Names of the .desktop files can be confusing, since the name you see in Dash can be different (in Dash, you see the name, defined in the Name= line of the file). Remove the local one and log out/in, then try again :) – Jacob Vlijm Apr 08 '15 at 10:54
  • I found the correct one, it just had the different name, but when I opened it, it was the problem. Thank a lot! – Raphaël VO Apr 08 '15 at 10:55
  • @ThoVo Perfect! glad it works :) – Jacob Vlijm Apr 08 '15 at 10:56
  • try grep -r 'your launcher name' and it will show the entry file. so you can delete it. – ssi-anik Oct 25 '22 at 20:15
  • Also, I executed update-desktop-database command from https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/how-to-install-and-edit-desktop-files-on-linux-desktop-entries/ and it didn't require to logout and login. just the icon existed but it was not working when clicked, thus it worked. – ssi-anik Oct 25 '22 at 20:17