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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?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/516207/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](http://askubuntu.com/questions/603870/chrome-broken-unity-launcher) – 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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