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I have an issue with Files app being duplicated in the Applications menu:
I also noticed that the app is actually listed 4 times (!) when I try to open some file and I choose "Open with" -> "Other application":
Why is it happening and how to fix it?
did you install another File manager? (like Nautilus). If it is the case, the others "File" icons are the different file managers installed
There were 2 things that I did to solve this issue.
First, thanks to @KGIII I removed Applications menu entries using App Editor. I found out that the "duplicats" were actually Nautilus file manager, and not the Pantheon Files.
Then I just removed Nautilus from my system using apt purge nautilus.
Now, I do not have any "duplicates" in both the Applications menu and the "Open with" menu.
The only thing that I would like to learn is how Nautilus was installed on my system. I did not install it explicitly by myself, I think it had to come in as a dependency of some other package. However, am I able to know for sure how it got installed?
apt-cache rdepends --installed nautilus, this will list the installed packages that depend on or "recommend" nautilus.
Nov 16, 2020 at 9:41
defaults.listfor duplicates. It's in /usr/share/pantheon/applications. Before editing that file, back it up.defaults.listfile. I found 2 entries with "Files" in it:inode/directory=io.elementary.files.desktopandx-scheme-handler/trash=io.elementary.files.desktop. I'm not sure what they even mean, so I didn't touch those. I am not sure if this is the cause since I see 4 copies of Files entry in my menu, not 2.