why is chrome unity launcher launching a live preview from brackets?

Question

so firstly i saw another user as this same question a few months ago and no one answered that one, but i hope my luck will be different.

i have brackets. i have chrome which i use as my primary browser. ubuntu 16.04lts. now, today, each time i hit the unity launcher icon for chrome, it attempts to produce a live preview from a file i am working on in brackets (adobe brackets, an ide if your not familliar).

i have purged brackets, i have purged chrome. i have reinstalled chrome and it still happens.

i have gone into /usr/share/applications/google-chrome-stable.desktop and the only thing it does is launch google-chrome-stable.

if i go to the command line and type google-chrome it launches appropriately.

could this be a symbolic link somehow accidentally got created bewteen the unity launcher icon for chrome and brackets live preview? if so how would i go about finding and destroying that linke?

again brackets is uninstalled so i dont suspect it is brackets to blame at this point.

Answer 1

i figured out the problem if anyone else has a similar problem, apparently there is another file that contains the .desktop files, which takes precedence over the /usr/share/applications/ directory of .desktop files, and that is located at ~/.local/share/applications, and for some reason the google-chrome.desktop file was set to open a brackets preview. dont know why that happened still but deleting it was enough to solve the problem anyhow.