old bramble
The game I'm talking about is Soda Dungeon, it's a free game so if you need to install it to reproduce this issue that shouldn't be difficult. I attached images showing the problem.
I'm using proton experimental and this is my system information:```
System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-50-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
wraith sorrel
Cinnamon?
old bramble
yes, that's covered in the system information I included.
"Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9"
wraith sorrel
Yea there are isssues with icons when games run through steam.
It never bothered me so I never though about it
old bramble
But how does the taskbar pick up the icon correctly when the panel doesn't?
if it was missing from both I would understand but it's only missing from one of the two
old bramble
Yea there are isssues with icons when games run through steam.
and I have a dozen other steam games and none of them have this icon issue
it's just this one game
old bramble
Steam game is missing it's icon in the panel but the icon is present in the start menu.
finite sapphire
But how does the taskbar pick up the icon correctly when the panel doesn't?
Sometimes happens when more than one executable file is involved in launching the game. You can try and manually add the icon to the link, or re-create the link and see if that fixes it.
old bramble
Sometimes happens when more than one executable file is involved in launching th...
how would I manually add the icon to the link? (in fact, where/what is the link?)
if you're talking about the .desktop file it has the correct icon on it, I've checked that
finite sapphire
I am not on Mint right now and cannot check, but you want to look into right-click options. If it is not in there, unpin it from the taskbar and re-add it.
old bramble
I am not on Mint right now and cannot check, but you want to look into right-cli...
it's already not pinned and the right-click options don't seem to have anything about it
finite sapphire
I guess Cinnamon cannot display it with an icon, then.
old bramble
but the icon is displayed just fine in the start menu?
and the .desktop file has the icon too
finite sapphire
Launch it from there, then. If it bugs you so much, file a bug report with the Cinnamon team. https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html
old bramble
funny hearing that since someone else on the forums just told me that I shouldn't bother filing bug reports for minor cosmetic issues because they're a small team and busy with the upcoming 22.1 release
I also don't think it's a cinnamon bug tbh
my current guess is that it's something to do with how proton is running it since it's an older windows game... it's being treated as a different application somehow?
finite sapphire
Steam links are literally just calling Steam with a game ID. I am actually not sure how the icon is handled in this case. If it requires Proton to hand over the icon from its Wine context, that may fail. I think the best workaround would be to enable these links to load an icon manually, since we cannot control what Steam delivers. But then again, I have no idea about software.