Electron app has a ? for its icon on Ubuntu

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
electron
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start with the BrowserWindow icon code linked in the issue and compare the NativeImage and path-based versions against the packaged Electric-Pork Linux zip. Check the PNG asset and the Linux dock behavior; done means the packaged app displays its intended icon instead of a question mark in Ubuntu.

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Description

I want the Linux version of Electric Pork to have an icon in the dock.

Right now it's showing a question mark.

Here's what I did.

  1. When the app is ready, where I create the new BrowserWindow, I added an icon value that is a NativeImage. Here's the code.

  2. Here's the PNG file. I didn't know what dimensions to make it so I made it large. It occurs to me that might be the problem.

  3. The app launches, but the icon in the doc isn't what it should be.

Note -- I originally just provided a path to the icon, and verified that the PNG file is at the location it was pointing to. Here's the code for that version.

Any help much appreciated. 🎈

Dave

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