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Carl H
Asked: 2020-05-02 09:56:23 +0800 CST

Firefox launches Anaconda Navigator

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I'm running Firefox 75.0 and Anaconda3-2020.02 on Ubuntu Desktop 18.04

I've just installed Anaconda Navigator and created a launcher for it by following the accepted answer to this question.

However, since then, when I launch Firefox, I get Firefox but the Dash, top-panel, app switcher (Alt+Tab) all show the 'Firefox' session as being Anaconda Navigator. Running firefox from a terminal has the same effect.

I guess that in creating the Anaconda launcher I have inadvertently overwritten some Firefox config. How can I resolve this?

navigator.sh:

export CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=/home/carl/anaconda3/bin/python
export PATH=/home/carl/anaconda3/bin:$PATH
python /home/carl/anaconda3/bin/anaconda-navigator

navigator.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Anaconda-Navigator
GenericName=Anaconda
Exec=/bin/bash "/home/carl/anaconda3/navigator.sh"
Icon=/home/carl/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/static/images/anaconda-icon-256x256.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

Clicking the Anaconda Navigator launcher does launch Anaconda Navigator correctly, as does /bin/bash "/home/carl/anaconda3/navigator.sh" from the terminal.

firefox launcher 18.04 anaconda

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Firefox has a module called Navigator, which presumably was invoking my navigator.desktop file.

    I renamed it to anaconda-navigator.desktop and rebooted, and everything now works properly.

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