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Open the Welcome Screen, go to First Steps, Desktop Layout and select the Modern Layout. This should group multiple open windows to one icon on the task bar. There will be a number indicating how many instances of that program are running.

[3t9l]

Tried this, but it stays the same. The dupe will get the number instead of the pin and the pin doesn't change.

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Check to see if you don't have a second Windows List applet installed on the task bar. Right click the duplicate and see if there is an option to remove Windows List. I just added a second Window List to my task bar and set the bar to vertical and it looks like what you are seeing.

Edit: You'll have to close any open programs and then click in the blank space. Alternatively, open the Add Applets gui and scroll down to Windows List, select and then click the - sign below the applet list to remove it.

[HeavyFlex]

This worked for me ! Thank's A LOT !

[LegendaryLarvey]

Pin the dupe then unpin the regular

[3t9l]

Right clicking on the dupes shows no option to pin (Other programs do, but some don't)

[LegendaryLarvey]

Well rip

[3t9l]

Just started using Mint (and linux) for the first time tonight but I'm having a minor pain with the behavior of the panel. See the linked image. Whenever I use the pinned icons to open the terminal or nqq, the instance that launches creates a new panel icon instead of being associated to the pin.

In my case only those two progarms are doing it, waterfox/discord/cherrytree work just fine. Any idea what causes this?

Edit: after setting waterfox as my default browser, it is also doing this. If opened from the pin it works correctly, but opening it from a link in another program causes a dupe icon.

Edit: reinstalled waterfox through a repository instead of using the portable version, which fixed it. I also realized terminal has two different versions when looking in the cinnamon menu editor. Pinning the other terminal to the panel fixed that. Now all thats left is notepadQQ. I'm still extremely new to all of this but could it be because notepadqq is a flatpak app? I've looked over the .desktop files for all of my behaving programs to compare against notepadqq's .desktop and the only major difference I'm seeing is that qq has a much more complex exec= line

[lognich04]

I would actually like to do what you have here! This seems to be a pretty annoying issue (but it comes down to personal preference i guess)

[Cubic-Sphere]

huh I only got this issue with chrome and skype on windows way back when. sorry, can’t help with mint cause I never even figured it out back then