Ubuntu – Sublime text unusual title

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Whilst using Ubuntu, it occurred to me that Sublime Text 3 was showing a peculiar name on the side bar. For example, when I hover over Firefox, I get a label next to the icon saying Firefox Web browser, but with sublime text, it says /var/www/html/forum/index.php - Sublime Text (UNREGISTERED). This is strange because this filename is not open in Sublime Text but still displays on the label. How can i reset it so it displays only as Sublime Text again?
It even says /var/www/html/forum/index.php - Sublime Text (UNREGISTERED) in the Dash Home

Best Answer

Not sure how it could happen, but some process must have either created- or edited the local sublime-text.desktop file.

How to solve?

If you installed Sublime Text globally (and thus the file /usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop exists) simply remove the local one:

rm ~/.local/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop

and log out/in to make Unity find the global one.

If /usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop does not exist, open the local one:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop

and look for the first line, starting with Name=. Then replace the line by:

Name=Sublime Text

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – How to add Sublime text to dash

Open Terminal and write this command

sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop

This will create a file name sublime.desktop in the user/share/applications/ folder and open it for you.

Copy paste the following content in it and save the file

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Sublime Text 2
*#Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName, so we reuse the KDE strings.*
*#From Ubuntu's language-pack-kde-XX-base packages, version 9.04-20090413.*
GenericName=Text Editor 
Exec=sublime
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/lib/Sublime Text 2/Icon/48x48/sublime_text.png
Type=Application
Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=sublime -n
TargetEnvironment=Unity

You will see the Sublime-Text icon in the dash-board. right click the icon and click

Lock in Launcher

Ubuntu – Sublime Text URL handler for ubuntu

[I see you have asked this question on both SO and AskUbuntu, so I answer here too, but don't know if one of these shouldn't be closed]

I asked me the same question today, seeing the txmt protocol with "better_errors" gem for Rails.

I search a long time but found nothing, so I tried to make it by myself.

I write an article and my blog, but I copy it here, for "future-proofness" :

Step 1

Create the file /usr/share/applications/sublime-handler.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sublime Text 2 URL Handler
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Handle URL Scheme txmt://
Exec=/home/<your_user>/bin/sublime-handler %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/txmt;
Icon=sublime-text-2
Categories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;
Name[en_US]=Sublime Text 2 URL Handler

Step 2: Update the MIME-types database

$ sudo update-desktop-database

Step 3: Create the ~/bin/sublime-handler file

#!/usr/bin/env bash

request=${1:23}               # Delete the first 23 characters
request=${request//%2F//}     # Replace %2F with /
request=${request/&line=/:}   # Replace &line= with :
request=${request/&column=/:} # Replace &column= with :
sublime-text-2 $request       # Launch ST2

Then make it executable : $ chmod +x sublime-handler

Step 4: Test a txmt:// file

If that dosen't work, say me, I'll try to help you.