Taskbar and switcher icons not showing up.

[mthqwork]

This is a problem what I have for months now, but can't figure out what's wrong, as the author also using Arch linux but didnt noticed the issue.

Here is a quick xprop from PE's window: https://pastebin.com/DZTN9pzp

My DE is XFCE 4.12.

The icon shows up properly in launcher and in plank. What could be wrong? Thanks

[wwmm]

If you have this problem with the new and the old icon the only thing that comes to my mind is the fact that the icon is a svg file. Maybe this taskbar does not accepts svg

[mthqwork]

I had problem with old, but have the problem with new also. Yes maybe, i have another apps with broken icons - they also offer svg only icon.

It's stock XFCE4 taskbar.

If I change the app icon in runtime with xseticon to a PNG one, it shows up. Would be great if you include both PNG and SVG icons.

Thanks

[wwmm]

Any ideas about how to offer both versions @zencubic?

[mthqwork]

I have tested this under plasma desktop and it works fine.

However, under MATE 1.20 and XFCE it's still default icon as described.

I hope this will be enhanced soon :)

Thank You

[zencubic]

@wwmm @mthqwork Sorry for the huge delay. I looked a bit into the issue and tested if it would work if I will place a png verision of the icon in every folder in hicolor. Sadly this didn't work out and I have absolutely no idea where XFCE will look for the icons if not there

[mthqwork]

@zencubic I will try to figure it also, maybe we can find a solution for it. Other apps are affected too. So maybe we are not alone.

[zencubic]

IMO XFCE should support SVG icons out of the box. Maybe someone created an issue for that at XFCE. Would be a great discharge for developer of such applications. I didn't even found a documentation from XFCE in which they described where to place the icons. Maybe there's also a freedesktop standard which is responsible for this

[TimB87]

I tried it with i3bar and i3bar-rust - both don't show the icon for pulseeffects. Can anybody confirm to have this working elsewhere or tell me what package I need to provide to get an taskbar icon?

[wwmm]

Is this still a problem?

[TimB87]

I still don't get any taskbar icon, so I'd say yes (still using i3status-rust)

[wwmm]

I imagine that the problem is the icon being in the SVG format. But it is so odd that nowadays there are desktops that do not support SVG...

[TimB87]

I would need to investigate, but I could bet my left shoe blindly that svg icons work on my setup 🤔

[TimB87]

@wwmm just checked, I do run redshift which only provides svg icons and for that I get a taskbar icon:

[wwmm]

So it must be something related to the SVG standard being used. Somehow GNOME shows our icon with no problem.

[wwmm]

Maybe our icon is using a SVG feature that is not supported in these taskbar manages but it is on the bigger desktops. But I do not know enough about SVG to verify that.

[TimB87]

I tried reading into i3status-rust and can't see that it actually handles that part of the bar for i3.. but I would need longer to actually really understand the code, so I am not 100% sure about this.

[mthqwork]

As for taskbar now it's OK at me (XFCE4, Arch, still :) ) As for switcher i can't test it right now, but if I remember good, it's also working.

[mthqwork]

I have checked it and it works well at the switcher too.

[wwmm]

As this issue was solved in XFCE. I will close it. @TimB87 the current code in the master branch has a new icon from the Korla icon theme. If you still have problems in i3status with it feel free to open a new issue.

[TimB87]

@wwmm will try it out master, hopefully over the weekend. I've been swamped the past days, but if the issue persists i'll open one up to get this resolved/help with my environment that produces those problems.