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I've got some issues with a custom *.desktop file for Google's Crome Browser for the Unity Quicklist. I've added some additional shortcuts for example for YouTube. The problem is that if no Chrome Window is opened it adds as I click the YouTube shortcut a new Chrome icon in the quicklist (so I have at least Chrome two times in thee list). If I click on "Open new window" or "open new incongito window" it works as it should and set the custom quicklist shortcut "as active".

The Shortcut Entry:

> [YouTube Shortcut Group] 
> Name=YouTube 
> Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome www.youtube.com
> TargetEnvironment=Unity

The shortcut Group is listed in the google-chrome.desktop file right after the two standard shortcut groups.

So, what is wrong? Is there any special argument I have to add (besides the '--app=' arg that not really results in a perfect solution)?

Lex Li
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  • The unity tag is for Microsoft Unity. Please don't misuse it. – Lex Li May 27 '13 at 07:50
  • Are you trying to make changes to the window manager code? If you are just trying to change the configuration settings without changing the code, then you should ask on SuperUser.com, ubuntu.stackexchange.com, or unix.stackexchange.com. StackOverflow is only for programming questions. – Ben Voigt Feb 08 '15 at 00:30

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Google Chrome
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U --blacklist-accelerated-compositing
Terminal=false
Icon=google-chrome
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=phpMyAdmin;NewWindow;NewIncognito


[phpMyAdmin Shortcut Group]
Name=phpMyAdmin
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome localhost/phpmyadmin
TargetEnvironment=Unity


[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
TargetEnvironment=Unity


[NewIncognito Shortcut Group]
Name=New Incognito Window
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --incognito
TargetEnvironment=Unity

This works for me, I had to add the name of the shortcut to X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=

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