Icon is not displayed

[aljustiet]

Are you using "AM" or "AppMan"?

AppMan

What GNU/Linux distribution are you using it on?

Arch/Hyprland

Please, describe the bug

Generated desktop files doesn't display icon. If I change the icon file to png variant it starts displaying again.

What are the steps/commands to perform?

Open app launcher e.g. rofi, and search for the app.

What is the expected behavior?

The icon to be displayed.

[Samueru-sama]

Generated desktop files doesn't display icon. If I change the icon file to png variant it starts displaying again.

Open app launcher e.g. rofi, and search for the app.

Looks like a problem with rofi, specially with libgdk-pixbuf which is used for svg icons.

Do you have this problem if you use this appimage of rofi? appman -i rofi

[aljustiet]

Generated desktop files doesn't display icon. If I change the icon file to png variant it starts displaying again.

Open app launcher e.g. rofi, and search for the app.

Looks like a problem with rofi, specially with libgdk-pixbuf which is used for svg icons.

Do you have this problem if you use this appimage of rofi? appman -i rofi

Does it support wayland?

[aljustiet]

Fuzzel has the same behavior.

[aljustiet]

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[aljustiet]

Generated desktop files doesn't display icon. If I change the icon file to png variant it starts displaying again.

Open app launcher e.g. rofi, and search for the app.

Looks like a problem with rofi, specially with libgdk-pixbuf which is used for svg icons.
Do you have this problem if you use this appimage of rofi? appman -i rofi

Does it support wayland?

Seems not.

[aljustiet]

I use the rofi-wayland version.

[aljustiet]

Adding png extension to icons fixes the issue.

[Samueru-sama]

I use the rofi-wayland version.

You likely have this bug. Which rofi fixed but it seems the wayland forks haven't.

Adding png extension to icons fixes the issue.

because the issue happens when there isn't a dot in the path to the icon, it is a weird bug, if you change the directory where the icon is located to have a . like ~/.Applications it will also be fixed.

[Samueru-sama]

Indeed it is the same bug, just installed rofi-wayland

And here is with the the rofi appimage:

Note that the stable releases of rofi also have the bug, you have to use rofi-git or the appimage that I build.

(Just in case that error about android-tools is because the file isn't an image, it is just a dummy icon lol).

[aljustiet]

I installed the rofi-lbonn-wayland-only-git package, and it fixed the issue too.

[twnaing]

jgmenu also does not work with current icon file (without file extension).

Adding extension to the icon file (and add extension in generated desktop file) works in both rofi and jgmenu.

[Samueru-sama]

jgmenu also does not work with current icon file (without file extension).

Adding extension to the icon file (and add extension in generated desktop file) works in both rofi and jgmenu.

Is it really the extension or that it expects the path to have a dot?

Try changing the icon dir to .icons and the path in the .desktop to also have .icons and see if it also displays the icon that way, without extension.

[twnaing]

Try changing the icon dir to .icons and the path in the .desktop to also have .icons and see if it also displays the icon that way, without extension.

For jgmenu

• icons/app-name -> does not work
• .icons/app-name -> does not work
• icons/app-name.png -> works

[Samueru-sama]

Try changing the icon dir to .icons and the path in the .desktop to also have .icons and see if it also displays the icon that way, without extension.

For jgmenu

* `icons/app-name` -> does not work

* `.icons/app-name` -> does not work

* `icons/app-name.png` -> works

Just tested it and indeed it needs the extension, this is a separate issue then.