Fix broken app icon on debian dock#33635
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This seems likely to also fix #33472 |
| // By default, electron builder will set this to variant.productName. | ||
| // But electron builder also sets the WM_CLASS of the window to variant.name. | ||
| // This difference will cause the app to launch with no icon and sometimes | ||
| // prevents app grouping in the taskbar. |
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Is there an upstream issue? That sounds like a bug
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An issue was created (electron-userland/electron-builder#4974) but it doesn't look like it received any attention.
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might be worth including that link in the comment for future devs
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More recent: electron-userland/electron-builder#9103
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hmm.. looks like that issue also provides a different solution for this i.e the app-id is element-nightly but the desktop file is named element-desktop-nightly.desktop. If i rename the desktop file to element-nightly.desktop, the icon issue is fixed.
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might be a bit odd to install element-desktop-nightly and then the desktop file is called something else
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But the point it raises re Wayland is one that this PR does not solve
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Closes #33472
On my debian 13 dock:
I can get it to work if I manually edit the desktop file so that
StartupWMClassiselement-desktop-nightly.