How to Set Linux Icon

Am opening a separate issue here rather than carry on in #125.

I’ve not been able to set an icon for the packaged Linux version of my app. It’s not documented and must work differently than OS X or Windows? In the other thread it was mentioned that you just need to set icon in BroswerWindow, however, that doesn’t work for me. Perhaps I’m missing something obvious?

Either way it would be good to get it stated clearly so that we can add it to the documentation 📖

I set icon in my BrowserWindow here. I’ve tried it both as a NativeImage and as the path to the .png via iconPath. I get the same results.

When using electron-packager I’m running this npm script. I’ve tried it with the --icon flag and without along with both variants of the main.js code I mention ☝️

I still do not get my icon as the app’s icon in the file manager or in the dock:

Are there other formatting specifications like size or color type? My image is here.

[Autre31415]

I’ve done some testing on this and found out icons can work under certain conditions (Without using native images) which I detail at: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/6205

[malept]

I missed it before, you need to set a PNG, not an ICO.