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Smavery

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Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

As seen in the image steam's icon is not the same as the launcher's icon. Is there any way to make an application use the same icon as their launcher. I'm using xfce version 4.20.

https://imgur.com/a/7TprcX4

Tamaranch

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

Could be this bug: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4wi … /issues/33
What is your version of libxfce4windowing?

Smavery

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

Could be this bug: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4wi … /issues/33
What is your version of libxfce4windowing?

The bug you linked to seems to different than the issue I'm experiencing, as I do have icons for all of my applications just different icons for the launchers. my libxfce4windowing version is 4.20.2-2.

Tamaranch

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

This bug could also cause this. There's also https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4wi … /issues/38 whose fix isn't released yet: it's about icon size, but different sizes can result in different icons.

Note also that, ultimately, icons for launchers and window buttons don't have the same origin (icon theme for the former, X11 property for the latter) and can be different, without this being a bug.

Smavery

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

Could be this bug: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4wi … /issues/33
What is your version of libxfce4windowing?

You were right, I took another look at this bug and I think its the problem.

Tamaranch

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

But if you use libxfce4windowing 4.20.2 you have the fix for this bug.

Smavery

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

But if you use libxfce4windowing 4.20.2 you have the fix for this bug.

That's strange, I did also find something else though. The icon shows correctly if there two windows open.

one open: https://imgur.com/SiZqZMt
two open: https://imgur.com/y589iUz

Tamaranch

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Re: Window Button Icons and Launcher Icons are different.

Window icons and app/group icons are not retrieved in the same way.