Bug#1021804: gnome-terminal: Wrong window name "Preferences" showing up in Gnome Dash and the application switcher (Alt-Tab) for running terminals

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:03 AM Ronny Rentner
<debian-bugs at ronny-rentner.de> wrote:
> when I run Gnome Terminal, it shows up under the name "Preferences" in Gnome
> Dash and in the application switcher. This also makes the application grouping
> fail in Gnome Dash.
>
> This seems to be caused by having 2 .desktop files:
> /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop
>
> After I have manually deleted the org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop file,
> the problem goes away.

It works for me. Please reinstall gnome-terminal. Then close all your
terminals and then try opening the terminal again.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha