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How to get rid of duplicate / not working app icon

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I have two Spotify icons showing. I already followed the instructions in How do I get rid of a duplicate application?, but the app that was removed was the working one. Now I want to restore the previous working app and remove the duplicate non-working icon.

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@AkshajSingla this worked. This means I tried to install Spotify as a snap package and it didn't work?
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  • Find the relevant .desktop files on your system with the command

    find / -name '*.desktop' -exec grep -H "Name=Spotify" {} \; 2>/dev/null

  • Inspect the contents of the files you found. Look at the Exec= line to learn which executable they are calling. That the icon is in the application overview indicates that the executable is present.

  • Try each of the command after Exec= of the different launchers on the command line. One will not work, the other will.

The issue indeed may be a faulty installation. First try uninstalling the faulty application: that will automatically remove the .desktop launcher. Manually deleting the .desktop launcher also will eliminate it from your overview, but prefer to remove the faulty application in the first place.

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Try sudo apt install spotify and sudo snap remove spotify. If this removed the correct app then reverse snap with apt.

As you said in the comments, it worked.

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