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I want to run chrome thought incognito so I added

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito

to the .desktop file. This has, up until now, done what I wanted. Now, it opens regularly and even when I rename the file chrome is still able to open normally.

Any ideas how to fix it?

I am running Kubuntu 16.04.1

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  • Hi @HanMah, which .desktop file did you edit? in /usr/share/application or a local copy in ~/.local/share/applications Jan 8, 2017 at 7:34
  • ...Anyway, most likely, a local .desktop file exists, overruling the global one. Good practice is to copy a .desktop file locally, edit that one, log out and back in. Please mention the situation, so we can provide this question an answer. Jan 8, 2017 at 8:22
  • @chaskes I used a graphic editor (sudo kate) what is wrong with that? I renamed it to del.desktop and then successfully opened chrome. I am still a beginner with linux but I would assume that if chrome was using that desktop file to open then it would not work after the change. I double checked that I spelled it corectly
    – HanMah
    Jan 8, 2017 at 12:03
  • @JacobVlijm /usr/share/applications/ can you explain what you are suggesting that I do?
    – HanMah
    Jan 8, 2017 at 12:03
  • I don't know if this is important information but I open chrome through the plasma search
    – HanMah
    Jan 8, 2017 at 12:05

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I would like to let everyone know how I solved this issue. But first I would like to thank @JacobVlijm for their amazing help. I don't have that much technical skills so I may be butchering the explanation. Please correct me if I am explaining it incorrectly.

So apparently there are 2 google-chrome.desktop files. One is saved in /usr/share/applications and that is the "main one". And one is saved in /home/yourname/.local/share/applications and that is the local one. I changed the main one before and I was told not to do that but rather only change the local one. The second issue was that in the . desktop file there are 3 instances of Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable. I changed only the last one. In order to fix the issue, I changed all three, and now it works.

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  • That's why I asked to post the (local) .desktop file. If there where no other local copies, it had to be an issue with the file. :). Only the first Exec= line is relevant in this case though. Glad it worked out. Jan 10, 2017 at 20:14

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