Autostart app with proper icon in unity launcher
- by kyleN
One can autostart an application such that it launches on session start with an xdg desktop file in ~/.config/autostart (or /etc/xdg/autostart).
But my application (a python/gtk/webkit/html5 app) when autostarted has a unity (and a unity-2d) launcher icon that is a gray question mark, even though:
when I find it in dash, the dash shows the icon I specify in my main desktop file (in /usr/share/applications)
when I launch it from dash, the launcher shows the icon I specify in my main desktop file
when I add it as a favorite, the launcher shows the proper icon
There are two cases where I get the gray question mark icon:
autostart
launch from terminal (this use case is not essential though and doesn't involve the desktop file anyway: but should/does ubuntu have an xdg desktop file interpreter à la #!/usr/bin/desktop or something)
So: what is needed such unity (3d/2d) launcher panel shows the icon specified in an autostart desktop file?
