Unity: Keep desktop file information for detached process

Question

I have the following desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=My Game
Exec=/usr/games/mygame %U
Icon=mygame
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;

Comment=Start my game
Comment[de_DE]=Starte mein Spiel

and the entry is shown perfectly in Ubuntu (13.04) Unity Dash.

When mygame is executed, it spawns a detached process again and I get a Unity Launcher entry with a question mark and Untitled window.

Is there a way to tell Unity, where the (detached) process originated or which desktop file to assign to the process?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '13 at 10:18

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Try to use the absolute path for your Icon file. This might help otherwise it could be a bug in the bamf.

answered Aug 07 '13 at 10:18

to4dy

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Thanks. Reading up on _bamf_ led me to realize the problem with launching detached processes (see edit). – abergmeier Aug 07 '13 at 10:41
You have to work on the file itself now there is no possibility for a workaround with the ".desktop" file. You have to remove the abstraction of the symbolic link or use the executable directly. – to4dy Aug 07 '13 at 12:09
That's not an option, since we have an update mechanism, which might even replace the underlying files. So we need one point, which decides what to start. – abergmeier Aug 07 '13 at 14:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '13 at 09:15

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Workaround was to set the X11 property _NET_WM_ICON on the detached process.

answered Oct 09 '13 at 09:15

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