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Fix duplicate Chrome icon in Plank
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fix-duplicate icon
sudo sed -i -r 's/(\[.+\])$/\1\nStartupWMClass=Google-chrome-stable/g' /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
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WARNING:

this made a horrible mess in my system (elementary OS 0.2 Luna) Notices of corrupt profile, Chrome not opening anymore, wouldn't stayed logged in, etc.

Had to un-re-install Chrome and delete the file ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Web Data file as instructed here to make everything go back to normal.

What did work in my case was the far simpler solution presented in the elementary site:

sudo cp -a /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop /usr/share/applications/google-chrome-stable.desktop

then open:

google-chrome-stable

and pin the icon that appears.

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Thanks for the heads up @Gabriel-p. Do you by any chance have a copy of the corrupted file that you could share? Would like to see what happend there. I'm aware of the alternative solution you mentioned. Unfortunately this only worked until reboot on my machine.

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