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I use netbeans in Ubuntu Natty. I have added it in the launcher and it works. But there is an issue. When I start netbeans it shows two Icons. One is for the launcher and the other for the active netbeans (the latter's icon is with little white triangle). Is there a workaround?

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Might be related to this: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/+bug/754334 –  Jorge Castro Sep 8 '11 at 14:21
Exactly, I wonder when it will be fixed! –  Stefano Mtangoo Sep 9 '11 at 11:10

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There is a netbeans plugin that works around this problem: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/40321/unity-launcher

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I upvoted your answer, I will check for that! –  Stefano Mtangoo Nov 18 '11 at 4:45
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I found it is a bug in unity described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/+bug/751909 I will keep an eye on the ticked and see if it is fixed. If they wont fix it until october, I will upgrade to Oneiric

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I upgraded to Precise and I don't use NB IDE Much. I use my company's IDE –  Stefano Mtangoo Nov 7 '12 at 19:24

open up gksudo /usr/share/applications and delete one of the netbeans.desktop

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As Curious Apprentice mentions, go to /usr/share/applications and edit the .desktop file which corresponds to your NetBeans installation. In my case, this file was named netbeans-6.8.desktop

Add the following two lines to the end of the file (in my case, after Terminal=0)

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