App icons on taskbar disappear

Hi there,

2 of my app icons (Davinci Resolve Studio 20 and Discord) randomly disappeared from my taskbar. If I click and launch them, the icons appear again but once closed, they go back to the “generic file” icon.

How can I solve this?

I’m using KDE Plasma 6.4.1 on CachyOS with 6.15.3.3 kernel.

Hardware is Nvidia RTX5000 series GPU and Amd Zen 5 based CPU.

hi, welcome.

are these applications snaps or flatpaks?

from the GUI there is one thing you can try.

right click the app launcher and edit applications.

the editor will allow you to re-assign the icon and you may need to make a copy of it somewhere in your /home directory so the system can always find it.

a variant on this is to just edit anything about the menu entry like the name or discription and that will send a whole copy of the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/ to your ~/.local/share/applications/ directory where you can edit the icon path (and even keep the copy there, if you want).