Gnome Dash To Dock - Icon - 3rd Party App

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Good Day Community,

I am running Palemoon, in Gnome, that are executing from my home directory (extracted tarball).
What do I need to do to fix this duplicate icon issue (see attachment)?
I already have a palemoon.desktop file in /usr/bin/applications.

As you can see, there are two palemoon icons

viyoriya

[deleted] why palemoon.desktop file in /usr/bin/applications/ ? it should be in /usr/share/applications or /.local/share/applications/

just move the file and check

evert

As far as I know : not possible. I have the same thing with FF Nightly.

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evert This is crazy. How is this not possible? Surely it can be solved?

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My apologies, palemoon.desktop is in /usr/share/applications

evert

Well anyway. I do not think it's a big issue. So I'll keep it this way.

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Think I might have found a solution.
I saw a *.desktop file in .local/share/applications with a filename with the word alacarte in it. I renamed that file to the name of the application, and boom, it works. No more duplicate icons in Dash to Dock.
Manage to get this working for Basilisk and Interlink.

Struggling with Palemoon though. Not sure what I did differently there

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I have found a solution.

The basic idea is that the *.desktop file in .local/share/applications needs to be identical to the one in /usr/share/applications/

This is the one I use for Palemoon:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Comment=Internet Browser
Terminal=false
Name=palemoon
Exec=/home/$USER/.palemoon/palemoon
Type=Application
Icon=/home/$USER/.palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
StartupWMClass="Pale moon"
Categories=Application;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;new-tab;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=/home/$USER/.palemoon/palemoon --new-window %u

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=/home/$USER/.palemoon/palemoon --private-window %u

[Desktop Action new-tab]
Name=Open a New Tab
Exec=/home/$USER/.palemoon/palemoon --new-tab about:newtab