Change Icon of Wine Application in Unity Launcher

Question

I frequently run a windows program with wine. When I open this program it shows up in the unity launcher as wine instead of the actual opened program.

I have made a desktop launcher with the right icon but dragging this to the unity launcher reverts the icon back to the wineglass icon. When starting the application it's denominated as Wine Windows Program Loader instead of its actual name.

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Answer 1

There are several logged bugs on this issue.

In one of the bugs (post 3), someone has reported a possible workaround. However two further posts below that note that it doesnt always work.

Answer 2

I'm not using Unity, so I really don't know if it will work.

You problem could be beacause of the program launcher. I assume your .desktop file contains Exec=wine '/home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program...' and so on. Try making a bash binary wich contains something like this:

#!/bin/bash
cd '/home/aldomann/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Archivos de programa/Warcraft II BNE'
wine 'Warcraft II BNE.exe'

Name it for instance warcraft2 and move it to /usr/bin (or any PATH variable, wich you can know by typing echo $PATH on the Terminal)

Then in your .desktop file instead of Exec=wine '...' use Exec=warcraft2. I think Unity will assume this is not a wine program and will use your icon, but it is only conjecture.

Hope it works ;)

By default your Wine apps .desktops are placed on /home/user/.local/share/applications/wine

Instead of modifying an existing .desktop file you can create a new one and place it on /home/user/.local/share/applications. It should be something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Application
Comment=Comment
Exec=app-binary
Icon=app-icon
Type=Application
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GTK;Utility

Tip: If you place your icon on /home/user/.icons/ (i.e app-icon.png) you will only have to put Icon=app-icon.

Answer 3

Use Alacarte (the old menu editor, you might need to install it) to create an old style menu entry with an icon and a executable that launches your program. Than search for this via alt + F2 and pin it to the launcher.

Answer 4

You can easily change any installed program in your Ubuntu using "Main Menu" (package name is "alacarte"). You can download it from Software Center by typing "Main Menu" and then:

1. Run "Main Menu" program.
2. From right panel called "Menus" find your program (in this case it is in "Wine" node) and select it in "Items" panel.
3. Click on properties button.
4. From showed dialogue select icon button that located on top left.
5. Finally browse the location of your new icon in your file system.

After doing above steps you will see your new icon in Unity launcher and panel.

Have a nice time.

Answer 5

Workaround on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Note: This workaround requires a working launcher for your Wine application. Here's a tutorial on how to create one. The workaround also applies to applications installed with PlayOnLinux scripts.

Workaround: Open your .desktop launcher in your favorite text editor and append this line to the file:

StartupWMClass=application.exe

(where application.exe is the executable your launcher points wine to)

Application icons and descriptions should be rendered fine now:

Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/702452

Answer 6

1. This is where you will find your icons or place your custom icons in here:

   $ cd ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/
   $ ls
   1DF1_PicasaPhotoViewer.0.png
   .
   .
   .
   29F5_WINWORD.0.png
   850A_EXCEL.0.png
   AA79_POWERPNT.0.png
   

2. Go to the following directory:

   $ cd ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Microsoft\ Office
   $ ls
   Microsoft Excel 2010.desktop\
   Microsoft Office 2010 Tools\
   Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.desktop\
   Microsoft Word 2010.desktop\
   

3. Edit .desktop files:

   $ sudo nano Microsoft\ Word\ 2010.desktop
   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=Microsoft Word 2010
   .
   .
   .
   Icon=29F5_WINWORD.0.png (or name of icon as in above folder)
   

4. You are done!