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Duplicate Brave Icons in Arch

See original GitHub issue

Description

Clicking on the brave browser (dev) icon creates a duplicate icon in the ubuntu dash (or dock, or panel).

Steps to Reproduce

Install brave-browser-dev on Ubuntu 18.04 following the standard instructions.
Pin “Brave Browser (dev)” to “Favorites”
Click on the icon, a duplicate will show up (see screenshot)

Actual result:

screenshot from 2018-09-07 20-21-12

Expected result:

screenshot from 2018-09-07 20-25-29

Reproduces how often:

Every time

Brave version (about:brave info)

Brave: 0.55.2 Chromium: 70.0.3528.4 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

Reproducible on current release:

Not if installed through ‘snap’

Additional Information

To fix the issue, the following line needs to be added to “/usr/share/applications/Brave Web Browser (dev)”:
StartupWMClass=brave-browser

If I add this line, behavior is correct (as seen in the second screenshot).

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:10 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

Kallestofelescommented, Nov 29, 2018

Any news on when this might get fixed and pushed to stable release? Same behavior on Arch linux with brave-bin package (stable) - on gnome it simply creates another icon to the dock/taskbar and the solution is to change the StartupWMClass value in /usr/share/applications/brave-bin.desktop file: from

StartupWMClass=brave

StartupWMClass=brave-browser

1reaction

fmariercommented, Jul 26, 2020

@thiagola92 If you’re using Nightly, then we are tracking that particular issue in https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1746 instead. I believe it’s only an issue with the Nightly version of Brave at this point.