Hi Daniel. Us Daniels need to stick together :P Enlightenment utilizes the StartupWMClass in the application's ".desktop" file to identify what application corresponds to what ".desktop" file. The ".desktop" file in turn is what ibar uses to display your application icons. First you should locate the ".desktop" file in question. There can be multiple. Generally if you have created an icon in Enlightenment, the ".desktop" file will be in a location like ~/.local/share/applications ... and for me Chromium's is called "chromium-browser.desktop". If you haven't created one in Enlightenment, then perhaps yours is a system one, in which case it might be somewhere like /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop
I generally copy the system one to my user one, so I can edit it and not have system updates overwrite it. Open it and look for the StartupWMClass line, eg: StartupWMClass=Chromium-browser Now open a terminal, and run the "xprop" command ( you might have to install this app ). When you've run the xprop app, move your mouse over a Chromium window. The cursor should change. Click the Chromium window. Return to where you ran "xprop" from. There will be a bunch of lines printed with various window-manager related bits of information. One will be the WM_CLASS. For me, Chromium's looks like: WM_CLASS(STRING) = "chromium-browser", "Chromium-browser" You can use *either* of these strings ( in quotes ) to fill in the value of StartupWMClass in your ".desktop" file. So, in theory, when Enlightenment sees an app running with the WM_CLASS in a ".desktop" file ( in the StartupWMClass line ), it knows it belongs to this application, and ibar will behave like you expect. I have seen this not quite work for some applications. I suspect the application might be altering its WM_CLASS mid-flight, or maybe something else is going on. I hope this helps. Dan On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:28 AM daniel antoine <univa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some people have reported having problems with their browser icon in the > dock bar , the blue bar missing under the icon and no presence of the > active browser windows when you pass the cursor on the icon. It happened to > me randomly and I was not able to reproduce the problem if there was one. > When you open a browser you have the blue initialisation circle on the > icon, the browser windows open and if you pass your cursor on the icon, you > have a blue window with the active browser session. When chromium is not > active If you open a terminal (terminology) and write in an url address you > can open it as an url, a chromium window opens but you have no blue bar > under the icon and you have nothing if you pass your cursor on the icon in > the dock (you can do the same thing by copying an url in a libreoffice > file). If you minimize the browser windows it looks like it has disappeared > but you see the chromium process in HTOP. I have just discovered that the > only way to reopen the window is to search in the principal menu and look > at the windows link where it is present, here you can act on it. > My question is why there is a different treatment when you open a browser > and is it normal. > > Best regards > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
