[maemo-developers] Integration with hildon desktop

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the excellent suggestions.  I tried them all, but
> nothing worked.
> 
> Here's a report on my latest effort.  I started with a known
> working .desktop file and replaced the name of the other application with
> the name of my application everywhere except the fields related to the
> icon.  When I ran my program, I got the logo for the other application in
> the menu but the default logo in the navigation bar.  I conclude that there
> must be something wrong in my program.  Maybe I did not Hildonize it
> correctly, though I don't see anything wrong.  I'm thinking that I will
> just run the application in full-screen mode so that no one can see that
> the icon is wrong.

To see which WM_CLASS your application uses (i.e. does it correspond
to what you've specified in the .desktop file), install "x-debug-tools"
package[1], do "xprop|grep WM_CLASS" from SSH console and click your
application window.

Or if you have your application running in Scratchbox, you can use
the xprop tool from your Linux desktop[2], just tell it to use your
Xephyr display.

By default Gtk sets the WM_CLASS to the name of the binary (not script
calling it...).


	- Eero

[1] See: http://maemo.org/development/tools/
[2] Depending on your distribution and its version, the package
     name for that differs, it could be xbase-clients, x11-utils...