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joejohn

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Registered: 2019-06-29

Posts: 11

[Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

Hi community,
I have been a happy user of Deepin DE for almost an year. I uses the "efficient mode" which fits my work flow.  Since yesterday morning, I have this weird issue of having multiple icons of opened programs in the task bar. Skype, Microsoft Teams, Upwork(which is a freelance time tracking software) they all showing multiple icons. I'm wondering what causes this issue?

It's kind of annoying. I'm assuming that it is a Deepin bug rather than ARCH issue.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thank you!

Taskbar Screenshot
https://imgur.com/JevhM7B

Last edited by joejohn (2019-07-11 08:10:04)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

I'd check on what packages were changed the last time you updated. The following command line filters the log file to just the interesting messages and jumps to the end:

grep -E '\] (ins|upg|rem)\w+ ' /var/log/pacman.log | less +G

You could then try to downgrade some of the packages you find and see what happens.

Or you could see if there's some config file in your home somewhere that you could edit or remove to put settings back to default. Or maybe there's a cache file in ~/.cache that could be deleted to fix this.

joejohn

Member

Registered: 2019-06-29

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

I'd check on what packages were changed the last time you updated. The following command line filters the log file to just the interesting messages and jumps to the end:

grep -E '\] (ins|upg|rem)\w+ ' /var/log/pacman.log | less +G

You could then try to downgrade some of the packages you find and see what happens.

Or you could see if there's some config file in your home somewhere that you could edit or remove to put settings back to default. Or maybe there's a cache file in ~/.cache that could be deleted to fix this.

Taskbar got messed up after these events:
Not sure which one is culprit. (May be Deepin Dock)

[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded libssh (0.8.7-1 -> 0.9.0-1)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded deepin-file-manager (1:4.8.6.4-2 -> 1:4.8.6.4-3)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded deepin-dock (4.10.5-1 -> 4.10.5-2)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded dtkwm (2.0.11-3 -> 2.0.11-4)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded node-gyp (4.0.0-1 -> 5.0.0-1)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded qt5-webchannel (5.12.4-1 -> 5.13.0-1)
[2019-07-01 10:14] [ALPM] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (242.29-3 -> 242.32-1)
[2019-07-01 23:38] [ALPM] upgraded papirus-icon-theme (20190615-1 -> 20190701-1)
[2019-07-01 23:38] [ALPM] upgraded qt5-base (5.13.0-6 -> 5.13.0-7)
[2019-07-02 09:53] [ALPM] removed deepin-calculator (1.0.11-1)
[2019-07-02 09:54] [ALPM] removed deepin-clone (1.1.3-1)
[2019-07-02 09:54] [ALPM] removed deepin-music (3.1.18-1)
[2019-07-02 09:54] [ALPM] removed deepin-picker (1.6.5-1)
[2019-07-02 09:54] [ALPM] removed deepin-draw (1.0.0-2)
[2019-07-02 23:32] [ALPM] upgraded freetype2 (2.10.0-2 -> 2.10.1-1)
[2019-07-03 09:53] [ALPM] upgraded firefox (67.0.4-1 -> 67.0.4-2)
[2019-07-03 09:53] [ALPM] upgraded libuv (1.30.0-1 -> 1.30.1-1)
[2019-07-03 09:53] [ALPM] upgraded semver (6.1.2-1 -> 6.2.0-1)
[2019-07-03 09:53] [ALPM] upgraded webkit2gtk (2.24.2-1 -> 2.24.3-1)
[2019-07-03 09:58] [ALPM] upgraded brave-bin (0.65.121-5 -> 0.66.99-1)

Last edited by joejohn (2019-07-03 09:01:44)

joejohn

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Registered: 2019-06-29

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

Tried sudo pacman -Sc. No luck though.

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

If your guess is that it's that 'deepin-dock' package, perhaps try installing the previous version and see what happens. There's a script named "downgrade" to help with that. You can get it through an AUR package with the same name "downgrade".

joejohn

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Registered: 2019-06-29

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

Downgraded 'deepin-dock". Still no luck. I have tested the original Deepin OS and Manjaro Deepin community edition. The problems exists in those distributions as well. Apparently, Deepin OS got something messed up. Way too many bugs. I even read in Manjaro forum that they are planning to drop their Deepin edition as the maintainers got sick and tired of these endless bugs. Such a shame!

joejohn

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Registered: 2019-06-29

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Duplicate Program icons in task bar (Deepin DE)

New Deepin DE edition update has fixed the issue. Thank you @Ropid