Ungoogled Chromium - Has me Super Confused

Okay I compiled and installed ungoogled-chromium 91.0.4472.101-1.
Since this new desktop entry is just identified as chromium and I have 2 other Chromium-based browsers >> how the heck can I get Ungoogled browser to open?

Why is there not an ungoogled-chromium .desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

Signed: Perplexed

How did you do that?

Just edit PkgBuild to install latest version of ungoogled-chromium.
Then compile/build

If you used the AUR PKGBUILD, it conflicts with chromium so the chromium on your system should be ungoogled-chromium. Other chromium-based browsers shouldn’t install chromium.

ungoogled-chromium isn’t a separate thing from chromium, it is just chromium with everything removed.

That being said, the differences are pretty striking so it should be pretty obvious which one you are running.

Thanks - right now chromium.desktop file is associated with SR-Ware Iron browser.

Can you share the results of pacman -Ql ungoogled-chromium

sudo pacman -Ql ungoogled-chromium
[sudo] password
ungoogled-chromium /usr/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/bin/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/bin/chromedriver
ungoogled-chromium /usr/bin/chromium
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chrome_100_percent.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chrome_200_percent.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chromedriver
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/libEGL.so
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/libGLESv2.so
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/am.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ar.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/bg.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/bn.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ca.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/cs.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/da.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/de.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/el.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/en-GB.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/en-US.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/es-419.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/es.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/et.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fa.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fi.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fil.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fr.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/gu.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/he.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hi.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hr.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hu.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/id.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/it.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ja.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/kn.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ko.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/lt.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/lv.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ml.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/mr.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ms.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/nb.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/nl.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pl.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pt-BR.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pt-PT.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ro.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ru.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sk.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sl.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sr.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sv.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sw.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ta.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/te.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/th.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/tr.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/uk.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/vi.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/zh-CN.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/locales/zh-TW.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/resources.pak
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/swiftshader/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/swiftshader/libEGL.so
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so
ungoogled-chromium /usr/lib/chromium/v8_context_snapshot.bin
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/applications/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/drirc.d/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/drirc.d/10-ungoogled-chromium.conf
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/chromium.png
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/licenses/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/licenses/chromium/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/licenses/chromium/LICENSE
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/licenses/chromium/LICENSE.launcher
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/man/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/man/man1/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1.gz
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/metainfo/
ungoogled-chromium /usr/share/metainfo/chromium.appdata.xml

I’m kinda hoping a separate .desktop entry can be made (named) and identified ungoogled-chromium.
Or should I create a new SR-Ware Iron browser .desktop file?
If I remember correctly SR-Ware Iron browser is a portable application.

It looks like that file is owned by ungoogled-chromium.

The install would have failed if there was already a file there owned by another package.

Are you sure that is part of sr-ware iron?

When I click on Chromium from /usr/share/applications - sr-ware iron opens Dalto
I’ll input the Chromium .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Chromium

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=Web Browser

Gnome and KDE 3 uses Comment.

Comment=Access the Internet
Terminal=false
Icon=chromium
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/pdf;application/rdf+xml;application/rss+xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xhtml_xml;application/xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;image/webp;text/html;text/xml;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window

Exec=/usr/bin/chromium

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=New Incognito Window

Exec=/usr/bin/chromium --incognito

How did you install iron did you install it manually after ungoogled-chromium?

Well this is interesting SR-Ware Iron is now owned by Ungoogled-Chromium on my system.
Cause version # is now 91.0.4472.101-1.
Cheers

Mark this as solved

I am not sure it is. If iron is opening, it likely means you overwrote your ungoogled-chromium files with iron.

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Well browser opens homepage - https://iron.start.me/us
Anyways I can live with this.
Positive Iron browser got over-written.

Chromium

Version 91.0.4472.101 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) EndeavourOS (64-bit)

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