diff --git a/bin/periodic/fix-tweaked-desktop-files b/bin/periodic/fix-tweaked-desktop-files
deleted file mode 100755
index f9bc687..0000000
--- a/bin/periodic/fix-tweaked-desktop-files
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-pidof -sq -o %PPID -x "$(basename "$0")" && exit
-data="$HOME"/.local/share/applications/tweaked-desktop-files
-data2="$HOME"/.local/share/applications/bakkedup-desktop-files
-
-# Directories where desktop files are stored
-user="$HOME"/.local/share/applications
-flatpak_local="$HOME"/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications
-flatpak_global=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications
-pacman_local=/usr/local/share/applications
-pacman_global=/usr/share/applications
-snap=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
-
-detectfiles() {
-	for file in "$user"/*.desktop; do
-		name=$(basename "$file") || continue
-		[ -d "$file" ] || grep -xq "\(flatpak-local\|flatpak-global\|pacman-local\|pacman-global\|snap\)/$name" "$data" && continue
-		if [ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ]; then
-			echo "flatpak-local/$name" >> "$data"
-		elif [ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ]; then
-			echo "flatpak-global/$name" >> "$data"
-		elif [ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ]; then
-			echo "pacman-local/$name" >> "$data"
-		elif [ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ]; then
-			echo "pacman-global/$name" >> "$data"
-		elif [ -f "$snap/$name" ]; then
-			echo "snap/$name" >> "$data"
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-fixfiles() {
-	lastmod=$(stat -c "%Y" "$data")
-	tmp="$(mktemp)"
-	trap 'rm $tmp' EXIT
-	[ -f "$data" ] && cp "$data" "$tmp" && copied='true'
-	lineno=0
-	[ "$copied" = 'true' ] && while IFS= read -r line; do
-		((lineno++))
-		name=${line#*/}
-		file="$user/$name"
-		# shellcheck disable=2015 # To disable shellcheck error here, line below is intended to work this way
-		echo "$line" | grep -xq '\(flatpak-local\|flatpak-global\|pacman-local\|pacman-global\|snap\)/.\+' && [ -f "$file" ] || { sed -i "${lineno}d" "$tmp" && ((lineno--)) ; continue; }
-		[ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$snap/$name" ] ||
-			{ mv "$file" "$file.bak" && echo "$line" >> "$data2"; }
-	done < "$data"
-
-	[ "$copied" = 'true' ] && [ "$(stat -c '%Y' "$data")" = "$lastmod" ] && sort "$tmp" | uniq > "$data"
-
-	[ -n "$(sort "$data2" | uniq -d)" ] && cp "$data2" "$tmp" && sort "$tmp" | uniq > "$data2"
-
-	for bakfile in "$user"/*.desktop.bak; do
-		origfile="${bakfile%.bak}"
-		[ -f "$origfile" ] && continue
-		name=$(basename "$origfile") || continue
-		[ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ] ||
-			[ -f "$snap/$name" ] &&
-			mv "$bakfile" "$origfile"
-	done
-}
-
-while :; do
-	user_new=$(ls -ad "$user"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	flatpak_local_new=$(ls -ad "$flatpak_local"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	flatpak_global_new=$(ls -ad "$flatpak_global"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	pacman_local_new=$(ls -ad "$pacman_local"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	pacman_global_new=$(ls -ad "$pacman_global"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	snap_new=$(ls -ad "$snap"/*.desktop 2>/dev/null)
-	[ "$user_new" != "$user_old" ] && detectfiles
-	[ "$flatpak_local_new" != "$flatpak_local_old" ] ||
-		[ "$flatpak_global_new" != "$flatpak_global_old" ] ||
-		[ "$pacman_local_new" != "$pacman_local_old" ] ||
-		[ "$pacman_global_new" != "$pacman_global_old" ] ||
-		[ "$snap_new" != "$snap_old" ] && fixfiles
-	user_old=$user_new
-	flatpak_local_old=$flatpak_local_new
-	flatpak_global_old=$flatpak_global_new
-	pacman_local_old=$pacman_local_new
-	pacman_global_old=$pacman_global_new
-	snap_old=$snap_new
-	sleep 5
-done
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diff --git a/bin/periodic/fix-zombie-appicons b/bin/periodic/fix-zombie-appicons
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6b680eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/periodic/fix-zombie-appicons
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+pidof -sq -o %PPID -x "$(basename "$0")" && exit
+datastore="$HOME"/.local/share/fix-zombie-appicons
+bakdir="$datastore"/backup
+data="$datastore"/tweaked-desktop-files
+
+mkdir -p "$bakdir" || { echo "failed to make directory $bakdir"; exit 1; }
+
+# Directories where desktop files are stored
+user="$HOME"/.local/share/applications
+pacman_global=/usr/share/applications
+pacman_local=/usr/local/share/applications
+flatpak_global=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications
+flatpak_local="$HOME"/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications
+snap=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications
+
+mkdir -p "$user" "$flatpak_local" || { echo "failed to make directoris $user & $flatpak_local"; exit 1; }
+
+detectfiles() {
+	for file in "$user"/*.desktop; do
+		name=$(basename "$file") || continue
+		[ -d "$file" ] || grep -xq "$name" "$data" && continue
+		[ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$snap/$name" ] &&
+			echo "$name" >> "$data"
+	done
+}
+
+fixfiles() {
+	lastmod=$(stat -c "%Y" "$data")
+	tmp="$(mktemp)"
+	trap 'rm $tmp' EXIT
+	[ -f "$data" ] && cp "$data" "$tmp" && copied='true'
+	lineno=0
+	[ "$copied" = 'true' ] && while IFS= read -r name; do
+		((lineno++))
+		file="$user/$name"
+		[ -f "$file" ] || { sed -i "${lineno}d" "$tmp" && ((lineno--)) ; continue; }
+		[ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$snap/$name" ] ||
+			mv "$file" "$bakdir/$name.bak"
+	done < "$data"
+
+	[ "$copied" = 'true' ] && [ "$(stat -c '%Y' "$data")" = "$lastmod" ] && sort "$tmp" | uniq > "$data"
+
+	for bakfile in "$bakdir"/*.desktop.bak; do
+		name=$(basename "${bakfile%.bak}") || continue
+		origfile="$user/$name"
+		[ -f "$origfile" ] && continue
+		[ -f "$pacman_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$pacman_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_global/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$flatpak_local/$name" ] ||
+			[ -f "$snap/$name" ] &&
+			mv "$bakfile" "$origfile"
+	done
+}
+
+existing_dirs=()
+for dir in "$user" "$pacman_global" "$pacman_local" "$flatpak_global" "$flatpak_local" "$snap"; do
+	[ -d "$dir" ] && existing_dirs=("${existing_dirs[@]}" "$dir")
+done
+
+detectfiles
+fixfiles
+
+while read -r line; do
+	if [ "$line" = "$user/" ]; then
+		detectfiles
+	else
+		fixfiles
+	fi
+done < <(inotifywait -qm --format '%w' --include '\.desktop$' -e 'move,move_self,create,delete,delete_self,unmount' "${existing_dirs[@]}")
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