Desktop Link Dupe Issue

[John R. Sowden]

On 07/31/2014 12:12 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 31 July 2014 00:30, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> On 07/30/2014 09:29 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30 July 2014 15:51, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tried this in xubuntu-no response.  This should not be an xubuntu
>>>> specific
>>>> issue.
>>>>
>>>> I have a link called GnuCash_SentryDemo, and another link called
>>>> GNUuCash.
>>>> Each has a different execution command.
>>>
>>>
>>> By link do you mean .desktop files?  If so, what have you got for
>>> Name= in the two files?
>> ...
>> I do not see a .desktop file.  I only see a Desktop directory after
>> /home/john (where all of the files on my desktop are stored)
>
> If, in a terminal, you run
> ls -l ~/Desktop
> what does it show for the two links?
>
> Colin
>
I ran your cmd and got a file name of gnucash.desktop.  I thought 
"links' had an "l" as the first character in the directory line, as in 
"d" for a directory.  There are no "l" descriptors in my directory of 
Desktop.

I then cd'd to the subdirectory in Desktop where the other file name 
resides, and found, as you probably suspected, the name is 
gnucash.desktop, again with no "l".  This accounts for the duplicate issue.

As I did not name either of these (it was done by the OS), what control 
do I have over this issue?

tia,
John