Just updated to 22.04, but I'm having an issue where I can't open Google Chrome via the Activities search bar. I purged and reinstalled it, and I can open it from Terminal, but not via Activities which is a problem because I can't pin it to Favorites.
Has anyone figured out a solution for this?
I had this exact issue on upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04. It turns out that I had an old google-chrome .desktop file lurking in /home/user/.local/share/applications/. Deleting that .desktop caused google-chrome to immediately appear in the app search and become favorite-able.
If there isn't anything in .local, maybe check in /usr/share/applications/ also.