ICON not showing

[shadowe1ite]

The nwg-dock is not displaying the application icons for IDA-Free , virtualbox and Burp Suite. However, the icons do appear in nwg-draw and rofi

application name == IDA

nwg-dock : no icon

nwg-draw :

[nwg-piotr]

I only checked with VirtualBox.

The culprit is the application itself, specifically the client class name. The .desktop file name should be <client_class_name>.desktop. Meanwhile the class name is VirtualBox Manager, while the desktop file name is virtualbox.desktop.

I added a workaround for this certain case (space-separated name, in addition to existent hyphen-separated name), but this for sure won't resolve every single similar issue that may occur.

[nwg-piotr]

Please re-open if the issue persists for some app. I'll need some more info, if so.

[shadowe1ite]

@nwg-piotr please reopen this issue. After updating to nwg-dock-hyprland version 0.1.2, some app icons are not showing, such as burpsuite and ghidra. This was working in the previous version, nwg-dock-hyprland version 0.1.1.

vertualbox and ida icons are working now.

nwg-dock-hyprland version 0.1.1:

nwg-dock-hyprland version 0.1.1: no icons

[nwg-piotr]

We will never cover all the badly coded or packaged apps. The only thing the dock knows is the client class, returned by Hyprland:

"class": "burp-StartBurp"

Now we seek an icon or a .desktop file named like this. But they are called 'burpsuite' and 'burpsuite.desktop'. This may be fixed for you on 2 levels, both beside my range:

1. make Hyprland return the proper class name (however, the problem may be not Hyprland, but the application itself), or
2. name the .desktop file after the class name.

(If we make the dock use the 1st match for "burp-", we're back in #5.)

The 1st may only be done by Hyprland developers or the application developer. The 2nd you may do on your machine, by just copying /usr/share/applications/burpsuite.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and renaming it to 'burp-StartBurp.desktop`.

[shadowe1ite]

hmm ok thanks