KDE4 - Task Manager - not showing launcher icon?

[Zaiwen Gong]

Hi,

I have figured it out.

To have the icon displayed correctly on task manager in KDE4, two points:

--you need to have the icon file (.xpm or .png) in folder /usr/share/pixmaps

--the icon file name has to be all lowercase!


Thanks,

Zaiwen



On 03/19/18 10:20, Zaiwen Gong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using KDE 4.10.4.
>
> I have one question about the Task Manager widget 
> (X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=org.kde.plasma.taskmanager).
>
> When I add the Task manager widget to my panel, any applications I 
> run(actually our own application) will not show the application's icon 
> we specified in its .desktop file.
>
> Instead, it will just display the same system icon (X with a circle)..
>
> I already checked all below:
>
> --Make sure the name of the .desktop file matches what the application 
> sets as WM_CLASS window.
>
> --Make sure that what's set as WM_CLASS makes sense and isn't 
> something generic (e.g. "java").
>
> --Adding a StartupWMClass key to the .desktop file if the above can't 
> be done (with the value what's actually set as WM_CLASS).
>
> As you know, none of those are strictly KDE-specific, it's about how 
> an app is supposed to announce itself to a Linux desktop.
>
> By doing the above, I got it to work in Gnome3, but still can't get it 
> to work in KDE4.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> I have an application called "pet". I placed a file called pet.desktop 
> under /usr/share/applications.
>
> The content of pet.desktop looks like:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Terminal=false
> Name=pet
> Exec=pet
> Type=Application
> Icon=/usr/share/icons/pet.xpm
> StartupWMClass=pet
>
> When I run "pet" from terminal, the icon shown on the Task manager is 
> not my pet icon. Instead it is the general system icon (X with a circle).
>
> Any suggestion will be highly appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Zaiwen
>