Closed Bug 1633214 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Thunderbird creating new icon in Plank

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1610305

People

(Reporter: pelvur, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install Thunderbird
  2. Create Thunderbird icon on Plank
  3. Update Thunderbird

Actual results:

Thunderbird opens additional fuzzy-looking icon instead of using one I created

Expected results:

Thunderbird should only have one icon on Plank.

Hello!

I have found exactly the bug I have (Bug 1610305) but is closed saying it is not Mozilla-related. I still believe it is related to Thunderbird. Here is how I fix it on my system (Debian 10 MATE).

  1. Update Thunderbird
  2. Open Thunderbird.
  3. Open Terminal, type xprop WM_CLASS
  4. When cursor becomes a cross, move it over Thunderbird window and click. Following output is received in Terminal:
    WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Mail", "thunderbird"
  5. Go to /user/share/applications, open thunderbird.desktop in text editor.
  6. Modify 13th row “StartupWMClass=Thunderbird” to “StartupWMClass=thunderbird”.
  7. Save thunderbird.desktop.
  8. Profit!

It reappears after every update.
As you see, nothing I do above is plank-related. The second icon appears due to a difference in name capitalization used in WM_CLASS and StartupWMClass in thunderbird.desktop.

Regards,
Pavel.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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