Generic Xorg icon appearing in the title bar in KDE (possibly in other desktop environments as well)

[n3thshan]

CLICK TO SEE WORKAROUND FOR KDE!!!

Description

The following screenshot best describes the issue:

A fix for this is suggested here and that is to set "copy-icon": true in the flatpak manifest.

Obsidian Version

Obsidian - Markdown-based knowledge base

          ID: md.obsidian.Obsidian
         Ref: app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 1.7.7
     License: LicenseRef-proprietary=https://obsidian.md/eula
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
   Installed: 642.0 MB
     Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/24.08
         Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/24.08

      Commit: a6bd00645adfd3265b60d65f392e235c7fd743f3d2fb138c31d4a7d4abe9606e
      Parent: 158b7a266a474af5e636a9cb00996c1e562f3c37832378b7af1b07a2e513e9f7
     Subject: Update pandoc module (f23c648d)
        Date: 2024-12-23 20:49:24 +0000

Sandbox Permissions

[Context]
shared=network;ipc;
sockets=x11;pulseaudio;ssh-auth;
devices=dri;
filesystems=/mnt;xdg-config/gtk-4.0:ro;xdg-run/app/com.discordapp.Discord:create;~/.icons:ro;xdg-run/gnupg:ro;/run/media;home;/media;xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro;~/.local/share/fonts:ro;
persistent=~/.ssh;

[Environment]
SSH_ASKPASS=/app/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass
OBSIDIAN_ENABLE_AUTOSCROLL=0
PATH=/usr/bin:/app/bin:/app/texlive/bin:/app/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux:/app/texlive/bin/aarch64-linux
OBSIDIAN_DISABLE_GPU=0
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde
GH_PATH=gh
OBSIDIAN_CLEAN_CACHE=1
XCURSOR_PATH=/run/host/user-share/icons:/run/host/share/icons:~/.icons

Hardware Information

lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] [8086:7d55] (rev 08)

glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa Intel(R) Arc(tm) Graphics (MTL) (0x7d55)
    Version: 24.2.8
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 7669MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Arc(tm) Graphics (MTL)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.2.8
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.8
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 24.2.8
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

System Information

No response

Logs

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[joshua-stone]

@n3thshan Please give more information about your distro and KDE version.

According to the flatpak-builder documentation, copy-icon is set alongside rename-icon:

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-builder-command-reference.html

rename-icon (string)
    Any icon with this name will be renamed to a name based on id during the cleanup phase. Note that this is the icon name, not the full filename, so it should not include a filename extension. 
..
copy-icon (boolean)
    If rename-icon is set, keep a copy of the old icon file.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aflathub%20copy-icon&type=code

Obsidian isn't using rename-icon, so adding that parameter doesn't appear to alter the build:

#392

I recommend trying this workaround instead:

flathub/com.spotify.Client#68 (comment)

[n3thshan]

thanks for ur input. none of them worked however but upon more research the following workaround works for KDE:

Start obsidian -> right click title bar -> select configure special application settings -> Add property -> scroll down to desktop filename and add it -> type md.obsidian.Obsidian instead of 'obsidian' for the desktop filename

[joshua-stone]

@n3thshan Can you share the full path of the desktop file and the desktop file's contents? For example,

$ find /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/ -name '*.desktop' | while read INFILE; do echo "File: $INFILE"; cat $INFILE; done
File: /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/export/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=obsidian.sh --file-forwarding md.obsidian.Obsidian @@u %U @@
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=md.obsidian.Obsidian
StartupWMClass=obsidian
Comment=Obsidian
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Categories=Office;
X-Flatpak-Tags=proprietary;
X-Flatpak=md.obsidian.Obsidian
File: /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/files/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=obsidian.sh %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=md.obsidian.Obsidian
StartupWMClass=obsidian
Comment=Obsidian
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Categories=Office;

[n3thshan]

here you go:

File: /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/export/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
File: /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/export/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=obsidian.sh --file-forwarding md.obsidian.Obsidian @@u %U @@
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=md.obsidian.Obsidian
StartupWMClass=obsidian
Comment=Obsidian
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Categories=Office;
X-Flatpak-Tags=proprietary;
X-Flatpak=md.obsidian.Obsidian
File: /var/lib/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/files/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=obsidian.sh %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=md.obsidian.Obsidian
StartupWMClass=obsidian
Comment=Obsidian
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Categories=Office;

[joshua-stone]

@n3thshan Sorry, I meant the newly-generated desktop file that you created in KDE.

[n3thshan]

@n3thshan Sorry, I meant the newly-generated desktop file that you created in KDE.

oh no no. i didnt create any new desktop file. this is just a window rule that identifies the window and applies the proper name to the app so that it properly displays the icon.

[joshua-stone]

@n3thshan I'm not sure how to fix this in a cross-desktop way within the constraints of the Freedesktop desktop entry spec. Even an attempt to explicitly set the StartupWMClass property doesn't do anything:

#393

Seems like KDE users will have to employ a workaround as this a semi-regular issue:

#348
#265

I've also confirmed that the AppImage is affected:

Here is the rule I was able to set up:

cat ~/.config/kwinrulesrc
[General]
count=1
rules=e89a99d0-a726-4e5a-ac41-e7a88d3c770f
 
[e89a99d0-a726-4e5a-ac41-e7a88d3c770f]
Description=Application settings for obsidian
clientmachine=localhost
desktopfile=md.obsidian.Obsidian
desktopfilerule=3
wmclass=obsidian
wmclassmatch=1

I think it would be better to file an issue with upstream KDE, because this doesn't seem to be solvable within flatpak.

[n3thshan]

thanks for your time with regards to this issue! i will report it whenever i can.