Duplicate menu items

[Safe_Ferret]

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?

[fehlix]

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?

Check if there are additional desktop-starter files for steam. Run this to check from the terminal command line (copy /paste + press enter)

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ls -l {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/steam?*.desktop 2>&-

If there are some , remove them like this:

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sudo rm -v  {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/steam?*.desktop 2>&-

[Safe_Ferret]

Thank you for your reply. Tried above in terminal and returned nothing. But the duplicates are still there.

[fehlix]

Thank you for your reply. Tried above in terminal and returned nothing. But the duplicates are still there.

What would this show:

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grep -il 'steam'  {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop

[Safe_Ferret]

grep -il 'steam' {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop

/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/home/keith/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop

Above is the output:

[fehlix]

grep -il 'steam' {/usr,~/.local}/share/applications/*.desktop

/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
/home/keith/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop

Above is the output:

Hmme, not sure why you see two menu entries as the later of the two above shall only be visible.
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

[Safe_Ferret]

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

[fehlix]

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

Well, you have one steam installed through MXPI popular apps
and another installation through flatpak.
So you have two Steam installs in parallel and by this also two menu entries.

[Safe_Ferret]

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 :)