Icon for the win app running?

[UselessRegister]

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

[olivierfrdierick]

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

[Bob Wya]

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

User account created .desktop launchers are typically saved in:

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~/.local/share/applications/    # aka "${HOME}/.local/share/applications"

This command will find all the local user .desktop launchers:

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find ~/.local/share/applications/ -type f -name "*.desktop"

Replace the glob character (*) with something more specific (e.g. "*steam*".desktop) if required.

You can edit / add the:

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Icon=...

field to set a new icon for any launcher you've created.

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/"

with an application name and appended hash value.

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

The icon name (to put in the .desktop file) will be: Icon=steam_icon_49520


See xdg desktop: Desktop Entry Specification for more information ...

Hope that clears things up a bit!
Bob