Re: Dash Favorite Icons and Running Applications

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Alessandro Crismani
<alessandro crismani gmail com> wrote:
>
> I have noticed that the Libre Office windows have a WM_CLASS of
> libreoffice-app (e.g. libreoffice-writer), as reported by Looking Glass.
> Conversely, their desktop files, as distributed by Arch, are named
> app.desktop (e.g. writer.desktop). In order to have a match I have to
> symlink the desktop file to libreoffice-app.desktop (again
> libreoffice-writer.desktop for my example).

Okay, it looks like this naming lives in the Fedora .spec file =/

A bug needs to be filed upstream to get these two things to match in
their default installation rules.

> Despite this workaround, the
> match fails when double clicking on a .doc file. Am I talking nonsense?
> I am not familiar with windows matching :)

When you double click on the doc file, is the xprop output the same?

> Of course, you'll find it attached. Looking glass reports a WM_CLASS of
> com-mathworks-util-PosVMInit, I've added it as StartUpWMClass in the
> matlab.desktop file with no luck.
>
> Please note that when MATLAB starts, it launches a splash screen, which
> *is* indeed matched. Than the main window appears and the match is lost.

Do you have commit a138f59 from gnome-shell by the way?  Just landed yesterday.