Two Files icons in Ubuntu 20.04 application launcher
As you mentioned in the comments the following information on .desktop files on your system:
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop:Name=Files
/usr/share/applications/nemo.desktop:Name=Files
/usr/share/applications/csd-automount.desktop:Name=Files
it is clear that you also have a different file manager installed, "Nemo", or at least had it installed at one time. Anyway, its desktop file is still there.
One .desktop file is for file manager nautilus
, the default file manager on an Ubuntu desktop. The other .desktop file is for nemo
, a different file manager used as default in the Cinnamon desktop.
To avoid having two files icons, either
- Remove
nemo
(never remove your default file manager), which will remove the .desktop file - If you wish to keep
nemo
, you can change the name of its icon by editing the .desktop file, so you can easily distinguish the icons.
To change the name of the icon for nemo
:
- Copy the file
/usr/share/applications/nemo.desktop
to the folder.local/share/applications
in your home directory. - Edit the copy with your text editor and change
Name=Files
to, for example,Name=Nemo File Manager
. - Save the file and close the editor.
The changed copy of the nemo.desktop
file will override the system wide one. Accordingly, that icon will now appear as "Nemo File Manager".