Workaround to fix Microsoft Edge based Web Apps not having there own icon when Wayland is enabled

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I had this issues when I enabled WAYLAND for ms-edge using the ~/.config/microsoft-edge-stable-flags.conf file

--enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform
--ozone-platform=wayland

I was able to find the WMClass for the “App” after opening it using this

unix[dot]stackexchange[dot]com/questions/362731/how-to-identify-window-by-clicking-in-wayland

Once I knew that, all I had to do was rename the .desktop file based on it. Which was just adding _ to the name e.g.

mv msedge-hpfldicfbfomlpcikngkocigghgafkph-Default.desktop msedge-_hpfldicfbfomlpcikngkocigghgafkph-Default.desktop
                                                                 ^^^

And I got the “Icons” like how it was before. :slight_smile:

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PS: (29-11-2022)

This worked but when the “App” receives a notification, clicking on it doesn’t focus to the app window.

For now, just switched to Firefox.

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PS: (12-12-2022)

Seems like this issue is only present in MS Edge and works as expected in Chrome, Brave.

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On KDE Plasma, there is also one more thing that can lead to PWAs using MS Edge icon…
If you have your task-manager in panel with option to group icons based on the app name, since PWAs got ‘msedge’ prefix, they get grouped with MS Edge icon as a same app…

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This tutorial may be useful to you: