gnome-terminal and midnight-commander in different Unity Launcher's groups

Question

I have a gnome-terminal icon and midnight-commander icon in launcher. When I press mc icon and then press gnome-terminal icon both applications add to the group of applications of mc icon. How can I make them to appear in different icons?

Answer 1

You need to pass a --class argument to each launcher so that gnome-terminal thinks it's a separate application.

You can do this by just making a custom launcher for one of them (probably mc) and pass it

gnome-terminal -e mc --disable-factory --sm-client-disable --class=mc" 

that should be enough for Unity to classify it as a different application, see here:

• How do I make a custom launcher for terminal applications?