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

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ronny Rentner <debian-bugs@ronny-rentner.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

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

Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:58:40 +0200

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.46.1-2
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-bugs@ronny-rentner.de

Dear Maintainer,

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.

Thanks in adance,

Ronny


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-0.deb11.3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.4-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.14.4-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.40.0-3
ii  gnome-terminal-data                           3.46.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     43.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.46.0-3
ii  libc6                                         2.35-3
ii  libgcc-s1                                     12.2.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.74.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.34-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.50.10+ds-1
ii  libstdc++6                                    12.2.0-3
ii  libuuid1                                      2.38.1-1.1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                 0.70.0-1
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.8.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                               1.50.2-2
ii  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  3.46.1-2
ii  yelp                               42.2-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 1021804@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>

To: Ronny Rentner <debian-bugs@ronny-rentner.de>, 1021804@bugs.debian.org

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

Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:08:37 -0400

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:03 AM Ronny Rentner
<debian-bugs@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

Message #15 received at 1021804@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com>

To: 1021804@bugs.debian.org

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

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 09:32:19 +0200

Hi,

But isn't there like a redundancy between the two .desktop files?

Looking at the section [Desktop Action preferences] in
org.gnome.Terminal.desktop
and the section [Desktop Entry] in org.gnome.Terminal.Preferences.desktop
or using 'meld' to compare them, they are some similarities, no?

Thanks,
Patrice

Message #20 received at 1021804-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>

To: 1021804-done@bugs.debian.org, 604087-done@bugs.debian.org, 623818-done@bugs.debian.org, 506506-done@bugs.debian.org, 774600-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing old gnome-terminal bugs

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:55:34 -0500

There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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