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When i open any page on chrome and wrong tool tip text is displayed for it (tool tip text of a page i opened some time before) in the launcher. How do i get rid of this. I use ubuntu 14.04 32bit.

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The question is not the same. nor the symptoms, but it is related to this one and this one.

What is the issue

It looks like your global .desktop file in /usr/share/applications, representing the locked icon in the launcher (the topmost one in your image), has a differently named copy in ~/.local/share/applications . Maybe (likely) as a result of using webapps in the past. When you run the application from the locked launcher icon, the local version of the (differently named) .desktop file shows up as a second icon in the launcher.

Looking at your image, that seems to be the case.

Note: if you open the local version of the .desktop file (drag it over a gedit window), you will probably find your strange tooltip in the line starting with Name=.

What you need to do

Look into ~/.local/share/applications (hidden by default, press Ctrl+H to make it visible) and find .desktop files that might be calling chrome. If you doubt a file, make the file executable. Its icon will show up on the file then, so you will be able to recognize it by its icon. Remove any .desktop file, calling Google Chrome, from the directory ~/.local/share/applications.

When an application is started from an icon, locked to the launcher, and a second icon appears showing a correct icon, it is practically always caused by a duplicate .desktop file with a different name, but calling the same application.

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  • I just found the .desktop file that calls Google Chrome and edited its name attribute by calling gedit google-chrome-stable.desktop and restarted chrome it worked.
    – user93
    Dec 14, 2014 at 2:07

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