Oh, one more thing to make this webapp experience better. In the .desktop file, you should also add a line that looks like the following, so that the window manager will associate the webapp with the proper icon on the taskbar:
StartupWMClass=www.bbc.com
This has to match the name that is provided between the webapp://
and the @
– that part of the syntax is used to specify the wmclass to use – mystery solved. As long as the wmclass is unique and is the same in the Exec
line and the StartupWMClass
line, the window manager will be able to show the correct icon on the taskbar.
@LeandroStanger, I’m not sure how you got that error dialog to show up. Normally, that is what happens when you try to execute a .exe file. Can you paste the contents of your .desktop file, and I’ll see if I can figure out what might be wrong? Also, what is your default browser?
For what it’s worth, looking through your diagnostic log, I noticed that you may have tried to add an icon to the desktop from within the browser, which does not quite work on Endless, although it gets really close. If you look in your ~/.local/share/applications
directory, you will see that there is a file of the form chrome-*-Default.desktop
; run the following command: eos-add-to-desktop chrome-*-Default
and you will be all set.
Roddy