Bug#825204: gnome-settings-daemon: Duplicate .desktop entries prevent some keyboard shortcuts from working

[Steve Clark]

I forgot to mention:

Adding the duplicate .desktop entry also stops Chromium from showing in
Settings -> Details -> Default Applications.

On Tue, 24 May 2016 15:30:52 +0100
Steve <fawtytoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: gnome-settings-daemon
> Version: 3.20.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Chromium is my default web browser.
> 
> Working example:
> 
> Add a keyboard shortcut in Settings -> Keyboard -> Launchers ->
> Launch web browser.
> Using the shortcut launches Chromium as expected.
> 
> Then create a duplicate .desktop entry for Chromium from
> /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop to
> $HOME/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop
> (This was initially for the purpose of shortening the application
> name as shown in the Gnome Shell applications overview).
> 
> The keyboard shortcut no longer works. Nothing happens.
> 
> Disable the shortcut for Launchers -> Launch web browser.
> Add a new shortcut in Settings -> Keyboard -> Custom Shortcuts:
> Name = Chromium
> Command = chromium
> ... and set an accelerator for this new shortcut.
> Using this new custom shortcut works as expected with the
> duplicate .desktop entry.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.20.0-3
> ii  libasound2                                   1.1.0-1
> ii  libc6                                        2.22-9
> ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.6-1+b1
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-3
> ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-3
> ii  libcolord2                                   1.3.2-1
> ii  libcups2                                     2.1.3-5
> ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.4
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.34.0-1
> ii  libgeoclue-2-0                               2.4.3-1
> ii  libgeocode-glib0                             3.20.1-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.48.1-1
> ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12                        3.20.2-1
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.20.4-1
> ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               230-3
> ii  libgweather-3-6                              3.20.1-1
> ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.7-1
> ii  libnm0                                       1.2.2-1
> ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
> ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.12-2
> ii  libnss3                                      2:3.23-2
> ii  libpam-systemd                               229-6
> ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.1-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.1-1
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-15
> ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      8.0-2+b2
> ii  libpulse0                                    8.0-2+b2
> ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.15-1
> ii  libupower-glib3                              0.99.4-2
> ii  libwacom2                                    0.19-1
> ii  libwayland-client0                           1.10.0-2
> ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.3-1
> ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.6-1
> ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
> ii  nautilus-data                                3.20.1-2
> 
> Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
> ii  iio-sensor-proxy  1.1-1
> ii  pulseaudio        8.0-2+b2
> 
> gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information