No icon on tray for Linux

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Issue by opatry
Thursday Nov 07, 2013 at 19:17 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#5889

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At least, running under Mate (Gnome 2.x fork). But should be the same for another Desktop Environment?

Actually, there is an icon, but not the brackets one, a pseudo window icon (white with blue bar)

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Nov 13, 2013 at 19:15 GMT

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Thanks@opatry. Can you attach a screen shot and details on your setup?

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Comment by opatry
Wednesday Nov 13, 2013 at 19:36 GMT

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As you can see, the icon in the task bar isn't the brackets one.

I'm using Linux Mint Mate edition (MATE Desktop Environment 1.6.0)
The icon in the menu is the right one:

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Nov 13, 2013 at 19:55 GMT

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Great, thanks@opatry for the quick response and the screenshot.

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Comment by poipoipoi
Sunday Jan 19, 2014 at 16:51 GMT

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Same problem here. Running this build: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/tag/sprint-34 on Debian 7.3 wheezy 64bit, OpenBox w/ tint2.

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Comment by MadcapJake
Monday Jun 16, 2014 at 20:29 GMT

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Adding a working directory to the desktop file fixes application icon in xfce window buttons panel item (I'm guessing this will also fix LXDE, Gnome, and KDE). Just add a Path element below the Exec element that contains the brackets directory path. So far haven't had any problems setting this.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Brackets
Type=Application
Categories=Development
Exec=/opt/brackets/brackets %U
Path=/opt/brackets
Icon=brackets
MimeType=text/html;

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Comment by ddittmar
Thursday Oct 16, 2014 at 06:35 GMT

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@Kurremkarmerruk thanks! your hint worked for me on Xubunutu 14.04

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Comment by radorodopski
Monday Nov 03, 2014 at 19:16 GMT

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This should be fixed with adobe/brackets-shell#483

The comment from@Kurremkarmerruk seems more like a way to temporaryly bypass the issue (until an update arrives and overwrites the .desktop file) than a solution.
This can also be reproduced by starting the Brackets executable from a path other that the one in ehich it is installec (/opt/brackets/) i.e. the home directory.

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Comment by ultrox
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015 at 22:53 GMT

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thanks@MadcapJake to the less savvy you need to create file on your desktop with a name

bracket.desktop

and add this to it:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Brackets
Type=Application
Categories=Development
Exec=/opt/brackets/brackets %U
Path=/opt/brackets
Icon=brackets
MimeType=text/html;

save the file.