duplicate icons in gnome bookmarks in lateral bar

**viniciusbrbio** · 06-Sep-2017, 07:27

Hi,

some icons appears duplicate in gnome bookmarks in lateral bar when I open it. For example (in the figure) I have Kile as bookmark but when I open the software, a new icon appears in the bar. I think that should behave as the Chromium icon in the example (just with a "dot" on it).

The same with Franz icon.

What could be?

**OrsoBruno** · 06-Sep-2017, 10:25

Just a wild guess, maybe you have two copies of those apps, say one from openSUSE repos and another from upstream installed to /opt/... or remnants of a prior installation.
Try to take away the icon from the sidebar and then pinning it again making sure it is from the app you are actually using...

**viniciusbrbio** · 07-Sep-2017, 06:31

Originally Posted by OrsoBruno

Just a wild guess, maybe you have two copies of those apps, say one from openSUSE repos and another from upstream installed to /opt/... or remnants of a prior installation.
Try to take away the icon from the sidebar and then pinning it again making sure it is from the app you are actually using...

I have tried it. But for example, if I open Kile and try to pin it in bookmarks, there isn't this option in the icon. If I want to do that I need to drag and drop the icon there, without open it.

**viniciusbrbio** · 07-Sep-2017, 06:40

If I type "file" in terminal, open a new instance, not the icon in the bookmarks.

Another strange thing is the new instance always uses the breeze icon theme, while in the bookmarks is the "normal one".

**OrsoBruno** · 07-Sep-2017, 09:44

You may look at what the actual configuration is, and see if anything odd shows up. For instance, for my favorite app "Firefox" I would open a terminal and type:

Code:

bruno@LT_B:~> gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
['firefox.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'empathy.desktop', 'gnome-music.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']
bruno@LT_B:~> ls /usr/share/applications/firefox*
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
bruno@LT_B:~> nano /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

and look for missing or duplicate launchers (xxx.desktop files) or strange details shown by the editor (nano or your favourite one)

**viniciusbrbio** · 07-Sep-2017, 10:13

Originally Posted by OrsoBruno

You may look at what the actual configuration is, and see if anything odd shows up. For instance, for my favorite app "Firefox" I would open a terminal and type:

Code:

bruno@LT_B:~> gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
['firefox.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'empathy.desktop', 'gnome-music.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']
bruno@LT_B:~> ls /usr/share/applications/firefox*
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
bruno@LT_B:~> nano /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

and look for missing or duplicate launchers (xxx.desktop files) or strange details shown by the editor (nano or your favourite one)

Problem solved! Amazing! Thank you