Hi, new to all this, using Ubuntu 14LTS and wine. Absolutely amazed at how well wine works. I have been a msoft user and programmer since DOS-2.1. After just two weeks of Ubuntu, I can't understand why I have held out for so long but thanks to win10, that was the tipping point.
Anyway, is there some easy way to assign an icon to the Ubuntu Launcher for the wine app running and "Lock to Launcher?" Preferably get the icon embedded in the windows program, but not essential. I'd be happy to assign any icon just to differentiate between the current five "?" wine-app icons on the Launcher.
Thanks
Icon for the win app running?
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Re: Icon for the win app running?
Hello.
This is a desktop environment question not related to Wine.
You'll have to ask on the Ubuntu support forum: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1760257
This is a desktop environment question not related to Wine.
You'll have to ask on the Ubuntu support forum: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1760257
Re: Icon for the win app running?
User account created .desktop launchers are typically saved in:UselessRegister wrote:Hi, new to all this, using Ubuntu 14LTS and wine. Absolutely amazed at how well wine works. I have been a msoft user and programmer since DOS-2.1. After just two weeks of Ubuntu, I can't understand why I have held out for so long but thanks to win10, that was the tipping point.
Anyway, is there some easy way to assign an icon to the Ubuntu Launcher for the wine app running and "Lock to Launcher?" Preferably get the icon embedded in the windows program, but not essential. I'd be happy to assign any icon just to differentiate between the current five "?" wine-app icons on the Launcher.
Thanks
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~/.local/share/applications/ # aka "${HOME}/.local/share/applications"
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find ~/.local/share/applications/ -type f -name "*.desktop"
You can edit / add the:
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Icon=...
Wine saves extracted .png icons (from the native Windows .ico files) by default under:
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.local/share/icons/hicolor/ # aka "${HOME}/.local/share/icons/hicolor/"
To find all the application icons in this directory:
find .local/share/icons/hicolor/ -type f -name "*.png"
Again you can replace the glob character (*).
So for:
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.../.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/steam_icon_49520.png
See xdg desktop: Desktop Entry Specification for more information ...
Hope that clears things up a bit!
Bob