Open byter00 opened 4 years ago
Having the same issue. I've got some investigation on what could be a reason.
That definitely happens because of the WM_CLASS property of the window set by Chrome. That's the property the window grouping is based on.
Even though the Desktop entry sets the StartupWMClass
to a unique value (different from Chrome windows), Chrome sets it back to google-chrome
. And even if we explicitly pass the --class="any-unique-id"
command line arg, it will be ignored. There's 9-years-old open issue regarding that I've found in the Chromium bug tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118613
Although it seems to be working with --user-data-dir
or --profile-directory
, it's actually not. That's only because windows for different profiles will get different WM_CLASS assigned by Chrome naturally to support the separation of profiles. But for the same profile, the PWA and the browser windows will still be merged into a single group.
I also see some specific logic in DockbarX for the Chromium and --app
arg:
https://github.com/M7S/dockbarx/blob/ca784021a555ea28cf51985e70e17ee95dd2f4eb/dockbarx/dockbar.py#L1409-L1410
There are a few more places like that in the code. I'm not 100% sure but it looks like a workaround for this issue. Despite that, these chromium-browser
and chrome-browser
identifiers recognition seem to support Chromium only, but not Google Chrome as it's google-chrome
currently.
So I think either the Chrome WM_CLASS setting should be fixed or the DockbarX should handle Google Chrome windows specifically.
I tried adding google-chrome
to the lists along with chromium-browser
, chrome-browser
in DockbarX. Unfortunately, that didn't work.
I've fixed this issue in most use cases. As long as the *.desktop launcher file exists under the XDG application directory, the icon will be displayed correctly. The current supported browsers are Chrome/Chromium, MS Edge, Vivaldi and Brave. For Brave, the launcher file has to be created manually at the moment.
When i install a pwa from Chrome and i start it, Chrome icon start to active and not the pwa icon