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Cider Displays X11 Generic Icon, no longer shows Cider Icon, and other issues

A topic by BEEFY JOE created 50 days ago Views: 325 Replies: 6
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BEEFY JOE50 days ago

tested with both the flatpak and appimage releases for 2.6.0.8, the application does not display the application icon after updating from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0. The application icon would display normally in the previous version. 
The .desktop in the flatpak does not point to the correct location where the application icon is located. 

The line in .desktop file for the flatpak version, `Icon=sh.cider.genten` should point to, `/var/lib/flatpak/app/sh.cider.genten/x86_64/stable/c9eb55a81eef71c4860a16c6647f74fbbaa66651532b0113dddcfbcb6b648af6/files/share/pixmaps/sh.cider.genten.png`

To be honest this release feels very sloppy. I had to change from appimage to flatpak because the appimage refuses to play nicely with AppImageLauncher and will not allow itself to be integrated by AppImageLauncher, causing the AppImage to be contstantly requesting to be integrated. This did not happen in the previous 2.5.0 appimage release. 

Also, the Flatpak version does not integrate into the KDE media player applet for media playback and control. 

And can you please update the Arch package so that I don't have to deal with these subpar releases for Appimage and Flatpak? 

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synthe648 days ago(+2)

For the icon to work correctly, it needs to be copied from there:

/var/lib/flatpak/app/sh.cider.genten/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/pixmaps/sh.cider.genten.png

to here:

/var/lib/flatpak/app/sh.cider.genten/x86_64/stable/active/export/share/pixmaps/sh.cider.genten.png


Then, for the kde integration with the media player widget, use flatseal to modify the permissions under the Session Bus:
Talks:

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player

Owns:

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.cider


Then the media player widget will appears whenever cider isn't stopped. The multimedia keys will work too.

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swnw34 days ago

I copied the icon according to your instructions but unfortunately it didn't help, I still have the cogwheel which is annoying.Folder at the end  of the "/var/lib/flatpak/app/sh.cider.genten/x86_64/stable/active/export/share/pixmaps"   pixmaps was empty but coping sh.cider.genten.png here had no effect. My system is Ubuntu 24.10, anyway flatpak Cider works fine, debian version can't connect with my  Apple Music account , after successfully logging in Cider declared that I was not logged in and the replays ended the same way so I installed the flatpak version. In my second Linux Mint 22.1 system where I installed Cider's flatpak first there was no icon at all - just empty place with text "Cider", so I installed an Apple Music icon which I think fitsbut but now I have the original icon so maybe I'll make a change. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, swnw

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herr.orange43 days ago

RPM version has the same problem, so it's not only flatpak/appimage. 2.5 also worked as expected with rpm.

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masodogo42 days ago

Another issue is that the 'Close to Tray' option is not working, at least under the KDE desktop environment.

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Chr1$41 days ago

https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider-2/issues/906

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hristohristov40 days ago

@synthe6 Thank you man

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