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Duplicate menu items
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Duplicate menu items
Hi there, great distro. I installed steam and it appears twice in games and twice in internet menus, I cannot figure out how to get rid of the duplicates, when you go into menu editor, steam only appears once in internet and once in games. Any ideas how I can fix this please?
Re: Duplicate menu items
Check if there are additional desktop-starter files for steam. Run this to check from the terminal command line (copy /paste + press enter)Safe_Ferret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:07 amHi there, great distro. I installed steam and it appears twice in games and twice in internet menus, I cannot figure out how to get rid of the duplicates, when you go into menu editor, steam only appears once in internet and once in games. Any ideas how I can fix this please?
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ls -l {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/steam?*.desktop 2>&-
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sudo rm -v {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/steam?*.desktop 2>&-
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Re: Duplicate menu items
Thank you for your reply. Tried above in terminal and returned nothing. But the duplicates are still there.
Re: Duplicate menu items
What would this show:Safe_Ferret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:52 amThank you for your reply. Tried above in terminal and returned nothing. But the duplicates are still there.
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grep -il 'steam' {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop
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Re: Duplicate menu items
grep -il 'steam' {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/home/keith/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
Above is the output:
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/home/keith/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
Above is the output:
Re: Duplicate menu items
Hmme, not sure why you see two menu entries as the later of the two above shall only be visible.Safe_Ferret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:20 amgrep -il 'steam' {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/home/keith/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
Above is the output:
I.e. the $HOME/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop entry shall overload the system entry /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
within the menu system.
So I assume you have somewhere also steam related desktop entries:
This will check more:
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grep -il steam $(for D in ${XDG_DATA_DIRS//:/ }; do echo ${D}/applications/*.desktop; done) 2>&- | sort -u
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Re: Duplicate menu items
grep -il steam $(for D in ${XDG_DATA_DIRS//:/ }; do echo ${D}/applications/*.desktop; done) 2>&- | sort -u
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/com.valvesoftware.Steam.desktop
Above is the output, thanks again for your help
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/com.valvesoftware.Steam.desktop
Above is the output, thanks again for your help
Re: Duplicate menu items
Well, you have one steam installed through MXPI popular appsSafe_Ferret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:45 amgrep -il steam $(for D in ${XDG_DATA_DIRS//:/ }; do echo ${D}/applications/*.desktop; done) 2>&- | sort -u
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/com.valvesoftware.Steam.desktop
Above is the output, thanks again for your help
and another installation through flatpak.
So you have two Steam installs in parallel and by this also two menu entries.

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Re: Duplicate menu items
Thanks for your time and patience. I uninstalled the Flatpack version and all is good.
I have spent hours trying to sort this myself, thanks again such a daft error :)
I have spent hours trying to sort this myself, thanks again such a daft error :)