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Opening IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager shows double entries for each app.
Anyone else seeing this?

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I just tested. In antiX 19, 64bits, I’m getting something strange:
Many .desktop files come up reapeated, listed in /usr/share/applications (and it’s /antix Subfolder) and also ~/.local/share/applications…
Did something change recently in the way antiX manages it’s .desktop files?

Edit: the same (or very similar) thing happens in app-select

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I’m using

inxi
CPU: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1907/1400/4056 MHz Kernel: 6.1.0-1.3-liquorix-amd64 x86_64
Up: 17m Mem: 1756.2/7273.0 MiB (24.1%) Storage: 238.47 GiB (13.2% used)
Procs: 254 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.24

and I’ve tried multiple times invoking IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager through the antiX menu and also through the App Select; no difference either way, and no problem here on a system updated today. NOTE: this system is too new to run any of the standard antiX kernels so I’ve been updating using Liquorix and xanmod Version 6.* kernels and they are working fine.

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anticapitalista wrote:

antiX-22

Opening IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager shows double entries for each app.
Anyone else seeing this?

On my fully updated antiX 21 Runit elogind-free (should be equivalent of antiX 22)- no such duplication on IceWM.
On my antiX 22 SID, elogind-free Runit – no such duplication IceWM.
In the past I have seen such cases on IceWM though.

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We did have the problem in the past and the “fix” was fairly simple, though I can’t recall the exact steps; we should have a discussion about it in the forum.
Maybe a good search will be able to locate it.

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Only thing I saw in add icon was /usr/share and /home/usename duplicates.

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Brian Masinick wrote:

We did have the problem in the past and the “fix” was fairly simple, though I can’t recall the exact steps

Indeed. It was coming and going as I recall. I did not mind this as the impact was immaterial. I thought it was just another manifestation of IceWM current mood…
Joke aside, I recall such duplication happening randomly in several places. One place was when adding an app to ‘Personal’. The app list had duplicates, so which one to pick uncertainty…

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Duplicates reported this issue.

Fix was simple, assuming it still applies:

sudo apt install --reinstall desktop-session-antix

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Brian Masinick wrote:

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Duplicates reported this issue.
Fix was simple, assuming it still applies:

sudo apt install –reinstall desktop-session-antix

I remember this was fixing duplicates of desktop entries in Other Desktops.
I did not know this fixes also app duplicates…

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olsztyn wrote:

Brian Masinick wrote:

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Duplicates reported this issue.
Fix was simple, assuming it still applies:

sudo apt install –reinstall desktop-session-antix

I remember this was fixing duplicates of desktop entries in Other Desktops.
I did not know this fixes also app duplicates…

You may be right, but I suggest that it is worth trying; running the command will not hurt the system, and if the menu and app entries are generated from the same source – which is possible, perhaps this will work. This kind of experimentation is worth it; at the very least it checks off an item in a “process of elimination”.

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PPC wrote:

I just tested. In antiX 19, 64bits, I’m getting something strange:
Many .desktop files come up reapeated, listed in /usr/share/applications (and it’s /antix Subfolder) and also ~/.local/share/applications…
Did something change recently in the way antiX manages it’s .desktop files?

Edit: the same (or very similar) thing happens in app-select

P.

If someone creates a .desktop entry, that is where they should put it if they want it to appear on menu’s etc. That way its stored separately from the original entry, and under /home so it gets saved along with other /home data.

If the duplicate entries are found there, and were not put there intentionally by the user, that would be a problem.

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@PPC – the ‘problem’ is that there is no ~/.local/share/applications folder on default antiX-full, but there is for base.
If one exists (even if empty) then all is ok.
So IceWM TIM should detect whether that folder exists and if it does do the ~/.local/share/applications find part of the script.
If it doesn’t then either create ~/.local/share/applications or don’t do the ~/.local/share/applications find part of the script

cd /usr/share/applications/
find ~+ -type f -name "*.desktop" > ~/.apps-antix-0.txt
cd ~/.local/share/applications/
find ~+ -type f -name "*.desktop" >> ~/.apps-antix-0.txt
###NOTE: repeat the last 2 lines, changing the first, the "cd" one, to change to the folder where your .desktop files are
sort ~/.apps-antix-0.txt > ~/.apps-antix.txt
cd ~

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antiX-22

Opening IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager shows double entries for each app.
Anyone else seeing this?

In antiX 22 full 64-bit SyVint updated today (12/31/2022) the entries to add the icon to the bar are translated (for .desktop files that have the Name[pt_BR] entry) and duplicated in IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager.
In antiX 21 full 64-bit SyVint updated today (12/31/2022) the entries to add the icon to the toolbar are translated (for .desktop files that have the entry Name[pt_BR]) and are not duplicated in IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager.

Edit: the same (or very similar) thing happens in app-select

This problem in App Select does not happen in antiX 21 and 22 that I detailed above updated today (12/31/2022).

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antiX-22

Opening IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager shows double entries for each app.
Anyone else seeing this?

No antiX 22 full de 64 bits SyVint atualizado hoje (31/12/2022) as entradas para adicionar o ícone na barra estão traduzidas (para os arquivos .desktop que possuem a entrada Name[pt_BR]) e duplicadas no IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager.
No antiX 21 full de 64 bits SyVint atualizado hoje (31/12/2022) as entradas para adicionar o ícone na barra estão traduzidas (para os arquivos .desktop que possuem a entrada Name[pt_BR]) e não estão duplicadas no IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager.

Edit: the same (or very similar) thing happens in app-select

Este problema no App Select não acontece no antiX 21 e 22 que eu detalhei acima atualizados hoje (31/12/2022).

Tenham um feliz ano novo.

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Nice fixes – AND explanation for the instances where entries are duplicated. Thanks!

By the way, I have not seen duplicates and I’ve previously changed a few things that presented issues some time around the previous release; I’ve not seen any issues resurface.

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