Bug#1021804: gnome-terminal: Wrong window name "Preferences" showing up in Gnome Dash and the application switcher (Alt-Tab) for running terminals

[Patrice Duroux]

Hi,

But isn't there like a redundancy between the two .desktop files?

Looking at the section [Desktop Action preferences] in
org.gnome.Terminal.desktop
and the section [Desktop Entry] in org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop
or using 'meld' to compare them, they are some similarities, no?

Thanks,
Patrice

Bug#1021804: gnome-terminal: Wrong window name "Preferences" showing up in Gnome Dash and the application switcher (Alt-Tab) for running terminals

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:03 AM Ronny Rentner
 wrote:
> when I run Gnome Terminal, it shows up under the name "Preferences" in Gnome
> Dash and in the application switcher. This also makes the application grouping
> fail in Gnome Dash.
>
> This seems to be caused by having 2 .desktop files:
> /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop
>
> After I have manually deleted the org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop file,
> the problem goes away.

It works for me. Please reinstall gnome-terminal. Then close all your
terminals and then try opening the terminal again.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1021804: gnome-terminal: Wrong window name "Preferences" showing up in Gnome Dash and the application switcher (Alt-Tab) for running terminals

[Ronny Rentner]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.46.1-2
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-b...@ronny-rentner.de

Dear Maintainer,

when I run Gnome Terminal, it shows up under the name "Preferences" in Gnome
Dash and in the application switcher. This also makes the application grouping
fail in Gnome Dash.

This seems to be caused by having 2 .desktop files:
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop

After I have manually deleted the org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop file,
the problem goes away.

Thanks in adance,

Ronny


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-0.deb11.3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.4-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]   1.14.4-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.40.0-3
ii  gnome-terminal-data   3.46.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas 43.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0   2.46.0-3
ii  libc6 2.35-3
ii  libgcc-s1 12.2.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.74.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-03.24.34-3
ii  libpango-1.0-01.50.10+ds-1
ii  libstdc++612.2.0-3
ii  libuuid1  2.38.1-1.1
ii  libvte-2.91-0 0.70.0-1
ii  libx11-6  2:1.8.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs   1.50.2-2
ii  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  3.46.1-2
ii  yelp   42.2-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information