Is there a way to tell which icon plasma should use for unity?
What is unity?
Iâm guessing it is not a native application, and is running non-natively on wayland hereâŚ
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If you donât know what is Unity, I donât even know why you try to help me here. Anyway, the question remains, how to assign a custom icon in KDE taskbar?
The link he posted is essentially correct though. Changing the Icon in the desktop file of the application should do the trick.
- Open âMenu Editorâ
- Select Unity
- Click the Icon in the top right and look for correct icon or âBrowseâŚâ
Alternatively you can create a â.desktopâ file manually for it and put it into ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. Every app should provide some sort of desktop file out of the box, in some rare cases these donât get installed automatically.
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@Fairplex It is frustrating to see this type of comment. This is a community driven forum. If people take the effort to respond then that should be appreciated not discouraged.
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If you cannot explain what you mean by âUnityâ then perhaps your post is not worth looking into, a view not aided by your singular response after I had already posted a link explaining how your âcustom iconâ can be achieved.
Generally, it is important to give details about what application is installed, and also how it is installed - because there are a huge number of variationsâŚ
It is quite possible that youâre referring to âUnity Hubâ and that you were simply too lazy or ignorant to type it properly. I also see âuntiy-editorâ in AUR, as well as âunity-hubâ - but if thatâs the case, then I can only state that this application does not support MY distribution ⌠obviously, your post also lacks any information about your current system which you could provide by pasting the contents of something like inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width or even the most basic information abtained by copying the information in the menu item âinfoâ⌠which again, are apparently too lazy or ignorant to manage.
Applications can be run from a binary, it could be an appimage, flatpak, snapd, or repository installation - or even some PPA installation.
You give no information, yet criticise a simple query into the nature of the application for which you show only a cropped screenshot showing a familiar âXâ icon in the taskbar.
This icon implies that the application itself is incomplete, or is running under XWayland.
Some older or proprietary apps donât properly support wayland, leading to missing or incorrect icons.
Plasma relies on .desktop files for proper app identification - and if missing or incorrect, Plasma falls back on the âXâ icon.
Wayland requires apps to declare a proper XDG_APP_ID which needs to match Plasmaâs expectations to load properly.
You can use xprop WM_CLASS to find out if itâs an X11 app.
However, the most important thing to remember when entering a new forum and attempting to elicit some kind of assistance is that it is really YOUR job to elicit help, best achieved by being friendly and cordial and responding positively to comments.
@ben2talk Sorry if my answer was a bit rude, but your answer sounded like a bot replying with some generic macroâŚ
@Lenzoid Unity Editor doesnât have a .desktop entry, it is launched directly from the Unity Hub via command, which I guess it is why it is missing the icon when launched. But your first answer worked, Thank you.
Whatâs wrong with you Ben!!! Eeeeeverybody just knooooooooooows what unity is!!! 
I donât have an icon for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Surely people like you are gonna tell me I have to elaborate since itâs not running natively on wayland, whatever that may be. You reallyâŚstrike me as being more of a ben2bot or ben2macro. This is truly disappointing.
I never mentionned having this issue under wayland, so I donât know why you guys keep thinking its a wayland/xwayland issue. Sorry again @ben2talk I didnât wanted to sound rude with you.