I attempted to create a desktop icon in Fedora Gnome but I only get a generic binary icon for my application. Installing Gimp or OpenOffice magically makes my icon appear.
I used Google Chrome on Fedora as an reference for making a desktop icon using png images. Google Chrome uses 32-bit PNG files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/#x#/apps/google-chrome.png
, where #x#
is the various resolutions: 16×16, 22×22, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, and 256×256. The permissions on these files were all 0644
or -rw-r--r--
. Google places their google-chrome.desktop
file in /usr/local/share/applications/
with permission 0644
.
Attempt:
I copied all of these conditions except the location of the .desktop file:
my-app.desktop
file was placed in/usr/share/applications
with permission0644
- All png files were saved as 32-bit images and properly located in
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/#x#/apps
with permission0644
- My desktop file is as follows:
(my-app.desktop)
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=My-App
GenericName=My Application
Comment=Test Application
Terminal=false
Icon=my-app.png
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/my-app/my-app
MimeType=application/x-executable
Categories=Network
Result:
Navigating to /usr/share/applications
my my-app.desktop file looks like a plain file:
In the Gnome desktop menu, my application looks like a generic binary file:
Installing Gimp or OpenOffice will make my icon appear as intended without modification to the my-app.desktop
file or the png files.
I have tried the following different things to solve the problem:
- Changing
Icon=my-app.png
toIcon=my-app
in my-app.desktop - Saving the PNG files as 24-bit
Best Answer
what does
~/.xsession-errors
say? Does it hint on the error that a validation would give?What does
desktop-file-validate
say?It should say something like this:
Edit: Here's what the desktop file looks like fixed: