Bug#1017420: thunderbird: Thunderbird 102.1.1 does not show its own icon in GNOME Wayland

[Amr Ibrahim]

Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:102.1.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hallo Carsten,

In GNOME Wayland, Thunderbird 102.1.1 does not show its own icon neither on the
dash, on the top panel nor in the Alt+Tab window switcher. Instead, it shows a
generic icon.

I fixed that by modifying the StartupWMClass key in the thunderbird.desktop
file. I changed it into:

StartupWMClass=thunderbird-default

Apparently the app class ID changed to thunderbird-default, instead of just
thunderbird. I noticed that by looking at what is shown on the dash tooltip and
on the top panel when Thunderbird is focused.

Best,
Amr


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 5.7-0.3
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.4
ii libasound2 1.2.7.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.38.0-1
ii libc6 2.34-3
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-6
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-6
ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.0-2
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.112-2
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-5+b1
ii libffi8 3.4.2-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.4
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.1.0-7
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.8+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.3-1+b1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.34-1
ii libicu71 71.1-3
ii libnspr4 2:4.34-1
ii libnss3 2:3.81-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.9+ds-1
ii librnp0 0.16.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12.1.0-7
ii libvpx7 1.12.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.1-2
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.1-2
ii libxcb-shm0 1.15-1
ii libxcb1 1.15-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.2-2+b1
ii psmisc 23.5-3
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii zenity 3.43.0-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4

Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-de-de-frami [hunspell-dictionary] 1:7.4.0~rc2-4
ii hunspell-en-gb [hunspell-dictionary] 1:7.4.0~rc2-4
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2020.12.07-2

Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 3.0.6-1
pn fonts-lyx <none>
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20-1

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[Carsten Schoenert]

Control: tags -1 pending

Hello Amir,

Am 15.08.22 um 23:21 schrieb Amr Ibrahim:

> In GNOME Wayland, Thunderbird 102.1.1 does not show its own icon neither on the
> dash, on the top panel nor in the Alt+Tab window switcher. Instead, it shows a
> generic icon.
>
> I fixed that by modifying the StartupWMClass key in the thunderbird.desktop
> file. I changed it into:
>
> StartupWMClass=thunderbird-default
>
> Apparently the app class ID changed to thunderbird-default, instead of just
> thunderbird. I noticed that by looking at what is shown on the dash tooltip and
> on the top panel when Thunderbird is focused.

nice catch!
I did not have time yet to dig into that, seems upstream did change
something regarding the MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME handling.

I've adding your patch so it will get included in the next versions.

--
Regards
Carsten