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I am using ubuntu 14.04 and have a problem with launcher (the left bar with bunch of icons).

There is a Google Chrome icon on the launcher. However, when I click it, other google-chrome icon appears at the bottom. When I put the cursor on it, name appears as "Twitter-Google Chrome" where regular icon that is permanently on the launcher appear as "Google Chrome". Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

typing a command
google-chrome&
highlight the Google-chrome (one that's on parmanently on left bar).

opening by the command google-chrome& and pressing Twitter-google chrome from dash adds extra triangle on the left of Google-chrome that is opened by the command.

moving Twitter-Google chrome to the upper side of launcher (to place it on permanently), makes it a ? icon.
Then quit the chrome and clicking the ? changes the icon to regular red-yellow-green around the blue icon and its name to New tab google chrome. Hope it helps.

Tom
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    Do you have some kind of twitter extension or web app or something like that ? – Mark Kirby Apr 12 '15 at 15:17
  • no I do not. I don't add any add ons on it. – Tom Apr 12 '15 at 15:18
  • Try this in a terminal- rm $HOME/.local/share/applications/google-chrome-*.desktop – Mark Kirby Apr 12 '15 at 15:27
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    possible duplicate of How to remove duplicate entries in dash? – Jacob Vlijm Apr 12 '15 at 15:38
  • You didn't mention it, but I am pretty sure you also have duplicate appearances in Dash. You simply must have duplicate desktop files. Google chrome is famous for that. See the linked post above how to find and remove them. I would start in the directory ~/.local/share/applications, that's probably where the duplicate(s) are. If you are having doubts on a .desktop file, make it executable to have it show its icon. – Jacob Vlijm Apr 12 '15 at 15:42
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    take also a look at this – tigerjack Apr 12 '15 at 15:42
  • dash is ok. dash has google chrome when i click it twitter google chrome appears on the sidebar – Tom Apr 12 '15 at 15:42
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    All pointing in the same direction. see http://askubuntu.com/questions/598457/google-chrome-opens-specific-website-when-ran-from-launcher/598460#598460 – Jacob Vlijm Apr 12 '15 at 15:45
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    @JacobVlijm - the issue is probably that the launcher that was clicked issues a sub process, which then gets its own icon - so not a problem with duplicate entries. This happens ALOT with Wine applications – Wilf Apr 12 '15 at 15:54
  • @Wilf I don't see Wine mentioned in the question :). Also, I really never (ever) ran into a duplicate icon without an additional .desktop file, unless the second icon is a generic one. If it simply is an extra "real" icon it really must be a duplicate .desktop file. The file -name can be confusing though. – Jacob Vlijm Apr 12 '15 at 15:57
  • @JacobVlijm Though this isn't about Wine (which just gave as a example of where this happens), it is possible for the launcher still to show a icon for things that don't have a launcher file, probably created from the info the program gives the window manager. never mind :) – Wilf Apr 12 '15 at 16:29
  • @JacobVlijm I have tried what's on the link. there are bunch of chrome-abcdefg-Default.desktop where abcdefg part is a (seems to be a) random 32 alphabets (no numbers). – Tom Apr 12 '15 at 23:05
  • to everyone I've edited after I've done some experiments with it. – Tom Apr 12 '15 at 23:15
  • You can safely remove the local .desktop files, log out /in and lock it again to the launcher. There is no reason to have a local .desktop file on a gloablly installed application unless you want to change ots behyaviour. really, it's that simple. – Jacob Vlijm Apr 13 '15 at 05:27

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Removing Google Chrome from the launcher and adding it back may solve this problem, depending on what is causing the problem. Try this:

  • Unlock all Google Chrome from the launcher. (Right-click them to show this option.)
  • Add the application to the launcher again by dragging Google Chrome from the dash to the launcher.
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First lookup for the info in ~/.local 

cd ~/.local
grep -HIrin Twitter-Google

this should point you a file where this strange info is then edit the given file to change the text, and your done

jo_
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