Spotify icon is displayed twice in Unity Launcher

[Andrea Grandi]

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and latest Spotify version. The spotify icon (when the application is not running) it's sticked on the launcher, and this is ok. When I click on it, another icon appears (see the attached picture).

This happened also in older versions of Unity. Could someone please fix this?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Have you sticked a local version of the spotify icon maybe?

[Andrea Grandi (andreagrandi)]

What do you mean exactly? I just launched Spotify using the Dash, then I righ-clicked on the icon choosing "Lock to Launcher". That's all I did.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

2013/4/26 Andrea Grandi <email address hidden>:
> What do you mean exactly? I just launched Spotify using the Dash, then I
> righ-clicked on the icon choosing "Lock to Launcher". That's all I did.

What your
  gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

Contains?

[Andrea Grandi (andreagrandi)]

andrea@Ultrabook:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites
['application://nautilus.desktop', 'application://google-chrome.desktop', 'application://gnome-terminal.desktop', 'unity://running-apps', 'application://xchat.desktop', 'application://skype.desktop', 'application://sublime.desktop', 'application://arduino.desktop', 'application://spotify.desktop', 'application://ubuntu-software-center.desktop', 'unity://expo-icon', 'unity://devices']

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Can confirm this in trusty.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

kai@Kai-Thinkpad:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites
['application://ubuntusdk.desktop', 'application://gnome-terminal.desktop', 'application://friends-app.desktop', 'application://nautilus.desktop', 'application://smuxi-frontend-gnome.desktop', 'application://skype.desktop', 'application://chromium-browser.desktop', 'application://pidgin.desktop', 'application://thunderbird.desktop', 'application://shotwell.desktop', 'application://spotify.desktop', 'unity://expo-icon', 'application://steam.desktop', 'unity://running-apps', 'unity://devices']

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Just to clarify this doesn't happen always but very often. It also happened on different machines.

[Stego (stegomon)]

can confirm on trusty. and, as kai mast said, it doesn't happen every time.

dorian@norfair:~$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites
['application://unity-control-center.desktop', 'application://gnome-terminal.desktop', 'application://nautilus.desktop', 'application://chromium-browser.desktop', 'application://thunderbird.desktop', 'application://spotify.desktop', 'application://rhythmbox.desktop', 'application://geany.desktop', 'application://eclipse.desktop', 'application://xchat.desktop', 'application://grsync.desktop', 'application://keepassx.desktop', 'application://transmission-gtk.desktop', 'unity://running-apps', 'unity://expo-icon', 'unity://devices']

[Fábio Maia (fabiu-maia)]

I don't think this bug happens randomly. I can reproduce the bug predictably.

To reproduce the bug:

1. Open Spotify from the Unity launcher.
2. Exit Spotify.
3. Open Spotify again.

To avoid the bug:

1. Open Spotify from the Unity launcher.
2. Click Hide Spotify in the system tray icon (this may require a few tries until it says Open Spotify).
3. Exit Spotify.
4. Open Spotify again.

The key is to click Hide Spotify first in the system tray icon.

Can anyone confirm?

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Have the same problem with google chrome now, since I upgraded to utopic...

[Martin (4-ubuntu-c)]

Change Exec and TryExec directive in spotify.desktop to:

Exec=/usr/bin/spotify %U
TryExec=/usr/bin/spotify

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.