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I'm using Pop!_OS 22.04.

I just downloaded and installed a new app (PyCharm), but it didn't come with an icon for my dock. I created a new icon using this ~/.local/share/applications/pycharm.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/opt/pycharm-2022.1.1/bin/pycharm.sh
Name=PyCharm
Icon=/home/USERNAME/Pictures/icons/pycharm.png

This seems to work great. I can see the icon I chose when I look for the app, and it opens in my dock. The only problem is that I can't seem to pin it to my dock's favorites.

The "Add to Favorites" button that every other dock icon has when I right click on them doesn't appear in my new icon at all.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? Is this a bug?

Update: I've seen this on other apps too, but for PyCharm, turns out there's an option in the GUI to create the desktop launcher. It appears to do exactly the same thing I did (place a .desktop file in the same folder), but it also adds a few extra keys. The biggest one seems to be StartupWMClass. If that key is included, the "Add to Favorites" option appears when you right-click the icon in the dock. If the StartupWMClass key is not present, the "Add to Favorites" option is not there.

Why is that? What does that option do?

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John
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Here is a solution to your problem:

  1. Add line StartupNotify=true to your ~/.local/share/applications/pycharm.desktop file

  2. Restart GNOME (Alt + F2) + run command: "r" or with shell command killall -3 gnome-shell (This is very important step)

Eflyax
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