I have LMMS 1.3.0-alpha.2 on Linux Mint and it seems to have integrated fine. Shows up in the search menu and stuff. And when I open it without a project loaded I see the LMMS logo in the panel. However, when I load a project that logo turns into the generic gear icon. Is there a way to fix this?
JoeReMi wrote: ↑October 14th, 2026, 7:51 pmI have LMMS 1.3.0-alpha.2 on Linux Mint and it seems to have integrated fine. Shows up in the search menu and stuff. And when I open it without a project loaded I see the LMMS logo in the panel. However, when I load a project that logo turns into the generic gear icon. Is there a way to fix this?
No, i doubt that. It is propl. a glitch in our code. I am not familiar with how Linux make the logical association between a program/ App, and the icon used. Perhaps there is something in a context-menu, but it is not something you can do in LMMS.
You could ask in a Linux-forum.
musikbear wrote: ↑October 15th, 2026, 2:33 amNo, i doubt that. It is propl. a glitch in our code. I am not familiar with how Linux make the logical association between a program/ App, and the icon used. Perhaps there is something in a context-menu, but it is not something you can do in LMMS.
You could ask in a Linux-forum.
I'm confused. If it's a glitch in your code, why should I ask in a Linux-forum?
JoeReMi wrote: ↑October 15th, 2026, 10:50 ammusikbear wrote: ↑October 15th, 2026, 2:33 amNo, i doubt that. It is propl. a glitch in our code. I am not familiar with how Linux make the logical association between a program/ App, and the icon used. Perhaps there is something in a context-menu, but it is not something you can do in LMMS.
You could ask in a Linux-forum.I'm confused. If it's a glitch in your code, why should I ask in a Linux-forum?
ya i got sidetracked there. I actually only meant to post the latter part, when i realised that it was a Linux related question. Sorry about that one 😳
No worries! I'm glad I was brave enough to ask for clarification, that's not always the case.
I will ask around, thank you 
UPDATE: Sorry it's not a "*.desktop" file issue either. I tested that. See my next post below for my solution on XFCE on Linux.
mjolnir wrote: ↑October 17th, 2026, 12:46 amAs a Linux user, I can say to look up how to customize/create "*.desktop" "launch files" or something like that. I've customized a lot of mine on my Linux system. But i'm not any good at explaining the procedure, except to say that it could involve editing text files. But yes, it's possible to creater "launchers" with custom icons. You can also set the icons to be either SVG or PNG files.
But when I open it without a project loaded I see the LMMS logo in the panel. It just changes to the gear when I open a project. So then is that not a different issue?
Hmmm. UPDATE: (sorry for misunderstanding the original question at first)
I just realised... I have that feature turned off for all of my programs except some Wine windows programs. OKAY... so I just remembered that you have to manually select|enable the feature of your panel in your DE (desktop environment).
For example, in XFCE (Desktop Environment) you right-click on the panel and choose "Panel Preferences...". Next select the "Items" tab. Then click "+Add". Then choose from the list of "Add New Items":
Window Menu
-or-
Window Buttons
Either one will give you iconized representations of currently running programs on you panel/taskbar/systray.
It took me a long time to realise that this is what was missing. It has nothing to do with *.desktop files (I did test that too, however).
Sorry that I can't explain how to do it for other DE's such as Cosmic, or Gnome, or LXDE, or whatnot.
However, on my XFCE test system, once I manually added the "Window Buttons", I could see the LMMS logo for selecting the corresponding LMMS program. Also, another LMMS logo was generated for the LMMS project; in other words, it's working.
The XFCE "Window Menu" option is more compact; it's just ONE icon that changes according to whichever program currently running has top focus (is selected and active). You can left-click on that icon and get a dropdown menu of other running programs to choose from, each with an icon and a name.
So ultimately, I am NOT confirming this problem(?) for XFCE desktop environment on (Arch) Linux. I think the way to get the logo representation is through the desktop environment's panel preferences. Again, on XFCE, you could also get there from the terminal: (or Application Finder)
$ xfce4-panel --preferences
Also, after you add the panel items, you can right-click them for "Properties" (more options), or "Remove" to get rid of them. If you're inside of the Preferences Items list, there's a tiny icon of a document with a wrench on top of it; that's the icon to click to edit the properties of a currently selected Panel Item.
Good Luck.
At least for XFCE, I think this is [SOLVED].
Let us know if that worked.
I will look into the settings for Cosmic and maybe some other DE's later.
