VSCode icon is missing in app switcher on Ubuntu
After I installed VSCode using the the "Snap Store" on Ubuntu Mate 20.04 (Using compiz).
When I do the app switching with ALT+TAB
the icon of the VSCode icon is missing.
The original path for the icon is at /snap/code/43/meta/gui/com.visualstudio.code.png
.
I encountered this issue only in the app switcher for VSCode.
Other snap apps works as they should.
The content of /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop
:
[Desktop Entry]
X-SnapInstanceName=code
Name=Visual Studio Code
Comment=Code Editing. Redefined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --unity-launch %F
Icon=/snap/code/43/meta/gui/com.visualstudio.code.png
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Code
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=text/plain;inode/directory;
Actions=new-empty-window;
Keywords=vscode;
[Desktop Action new-empty-window]
Name=New Empty Window
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --new-window %F
Icon=/snap/code/43/meta/gui/com.visualstudio.code.png
If you install through snap, sometimes the *.desktop
file does not update correctly.
You should change the Icon=
path in the following file, which is the one the system uses:
/usr/share/applications/code_code.desktop
So for instance, I had to change /usr/share/applications/code_code.desktop
attributes of [Desktop Entry]
and [Desktop Action new-empty-window]
, with the correct path in Icon=
, which I found in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop
Icon=/snap/code/85/meta/gui/com.visualstudio.code.png
instead of
Icon=/snap/code/64/meta/gui/com.visualstudio.code.png
I guess you can also do:
cat /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop > /usr/share/applications/code_code.desktop