Community-edition: No icon in Linux

[michel-slm]

On Ubuntu 16.04 with Budgie desktop installed and Plank as a dock, Rambox shows up with a generic icon in the dock:

also, the installation tarball does not come with a stand-alone png logo file, so it's harder to create a desktop launcher.

[jrhenderson1988]

I have more or less the same problem on Ubuntu 15.10. The only differences being that I use the default Unity dock and the icon I get instead is the default grey question mark one.

[janpansa]

Just to confirm, this is only on certain distros. It works fine on Arch Linux 64 bit together with cinnamon.

[rummik]

I'm using Unity, and it doesn't seem to create a cached icon. I'm not sure if this is because Rambox doesn't have the icon in an unpacked location, or if it isn't built with the icon packed in a way that Unity can see it. Downloading https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox/blob/master/resources/Icon.png and editing ~/.local/share/applications/rambox.desktop fixes it. Rambox may need to have a .desktop file included with it to resolve this in Ubuntu

[saenzramiro]

Ok, guys. I will take a look on this for the next release. Is a priority right now. :wink:

[Pablohn26]

Hi,

debian 9 and xfce here. Icon is on status bar but no in window selector and window frame:

[rummik]

Spotting this in KDE now. Currently trying to figure out why. I'm using the .deb for Rambox 0.4.2 on Kubuntu 16.04 / KDE 5.6

[abumalick]

I have a this bug on LinuxMint 18 (based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) I use Rambox 0.4.5 .
Shouldm't this bug be fixed ?

[jbbr]

@janpansa are you using the rambox-bin AUR package? This does add an .desktop-file for rambox together with an icon.
This might confirm that having a .desktop file does fix the problem (Or does provide a workaround).
I can confirm that I don't have any issues with the Rambox icons in Arch Linux using i3 WM and Rambox 0.4.5

EDIT: Okay I now see that this issue is quite old, sorry for mentioning then. I had this issue subscribed as I had this issue too in the past.
Still hope you find a fix @abumalick - How have you installed Rambox? .deb/AppImage/tar.gz?

The .deb does contain a .desktop file and an icon in multiple sizes.

[abumalick]

yep, deb file.
I am under XFCE desktop
I dont have a rambox.desktop file

[tivervac]

In the latest 64bit deb this is still an issue. The Icon.png is not included in the tarball.

[kiview]

Same problem on Fedora 26 when using the AppImage version.

[Israphel]

No icon in Xubuntu 16.04, with version 0.5.12

[diegombeltran]

Same here, Debian x64 and XFCE

[alp82]

Same problem here, Arch Linux with XFCE, installed rambox-bin from AUR.

[zyphlar]

I originally installed by downloading from github and manually extracting to a folder, so maybe that's why I didn't have an icon. My ~/.local/share/applications/rambox.desktop file specified Icon=application-default-icon and it needs to point to the rambox executable.

Since installing the .deb package, which rambox now returns /usr/local/bin/rambox and changing my .desktop file to below has fixed the problem. That file path symlinks to /opt/Rambox/rambox so anyone should be able to use the below .desktop file if they're able to run rambox from the terminal simply by typing rambox.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Rambox
Icon=rambox
Exec=rambox
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Rambox
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
X-UnityGenerated=true

[francesco-cadei]

no icon also in ubuntu 17.10 x64 deb file (gnome 3.26)

[gospel91]

the same as in @francescocadei
17.10 x64

[verzola]

Installing Rambox using the .deb from Releases on GitHub instead of .tar.gz that is downloaded on the website when you click on .deb option solved for me:

Link: https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox/releases/download/0.5.16/Rambox_0.5.16-x64.deb

[willydee]

I had the same issue with 0.5.16 AppImage on Ubuntu Artful/Bionic, and Solus Budgie 3 as well; only a generic icon was shown in panels.
As a remedy, add the following line to ~/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-rambox.desktop:

StartupWMClass=Rambox

The file might be named differently for the .deb package.

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