I have doubles of Atom text editor, LibreOffice math, Disks, and gnome-tweak icons in the system menu. I didn’t see two .desktop files for Atom, but I did execute Atom from the terminal using sudo once, but not the other programs. Normally running as sudo doesnt alter the menu, so that’s probably not the problem… How do I remove the doubles without deleting the original?
This is a known issue upstream budgie-desktop. It is because the .desktop file specifies two different categories, but the budgie menu system doesnt distinguish between then and displays twice.
You can see that if you go into budgie-settings - panel and click on budgie-menu. Check the “Show Headings” checkbox. In the menu you now will see that your application appears in two different sections.
Eureka! It was relief enough just to get the two icons separated from each other. Thank you for leading the development of this project!
As mentioned above, use menu headings or dig into the budgie desktop code and have a go fixing this properly by deduplicating menu entries.
Not sure if this is related, but System Menu also created duplicate categories of the apps i edited.
Any way to at least reset the menu?
Thanks
Click on the folder (Games in the picture) and look at the bottom of the app - if you see /home/yourname/.local… then click the Delete button. Dont worry about the warning message - it will just delete the local copy of the folder.