Firefox Icon in Dock

[Glen Walker]

Hello Everyone,

Sadly Seamonkey doesn't work well enough on modern websites for me these days so I've installed Firefox and Thunderbird.

I use a custom icons for Firefox and Thunderbird for my launchers in the dock (using the vintage icons because I don't like the modern ones) but when I get notifications such as when Whatsapp web tab receives a message or when a pop-up window in Firefox is opened the icon changes to a weird one that doesn't seem to exist anywhere on my system so I'm guessing its built-in to Firefox somehow?:

Anyone got any ideas how I can stop the icon from changing?

I've seen Thunderbird change too but not so often and can't remember when it did...possibly when it has calendar notifications.

Thanks!

Glen

[TouchTravel XVZ]

There is one icon that is specific to your wmaker dock. You can set it graphically by right-clicking the appicon while the application is closed and setting the icon in the properties menu.

The other icon is derived from XDG_ICONS (your icon theme). I believe these cached by WindowMaker when your first run an application.

It's worth checking to make sure that you don't have an old version:

`~/WindowMaker/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps/`

Simply change/delete the icon in there and it should behave like you expect.

[Glen Walker]

Thanks,

I've had a look and the cached icons have the new Firefox/Thunderbird logos in but not the strange little fox-face—it was picking up the cached icons before I set the "Emulate Application Icon" option and I wouldn't find it quite so strange for it to be doing that but as far as I can see the fox-face that appears isn't anywhere on my computer (if it was I might try changing it to the old icon to see if that worked).  I can only assume it is built-in to Firefox somehow and Window Maker is unable to keep the icon I specified for some reason because of the way Firefox has been coded—anyone know of any other places where Firefox might keep its icons or pixmaps?

Regards,

Glen

[Glen Walker]

Hello Everyone,

I figured it out, what you have to do is wait for Firefox or Thunderbird to pop-up with its notification (so far I've come across three: an incoming e-mail, a calendar event and for Firefox when a video pops out into a separate window).  Then you find the icon in the bottom left, right-click it and set the icon to the old Firefox logo.  This doesn't stop the icon changing in the bottom (shown with the arrow in the screenshot) but it does stop the icon in the dock from changing: