Unable to set icon on Linux target

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I’m building on Ubuntu 16.04 for x64, and while simply running the app will show the icon just fine, the icon once packaged is always the electron icon. I have verified that the icon path is a valid one.

Console output when you run electron-packager with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-packager. Please include the stack trace if one exists.

  electron-packager Electron Packager 8.6.0 +0ms
  electron-packager Node v7.7.3 +2ms
  electron-packager Host Operating system: linux (x64) +0ms
  electron-packager Packager Options: {"name":"pman","appname":"pman","arch":"x64","platform":"linux","icon":null,"version":"1.6.5","dir":"/home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist","sourcedir":"/home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist","out":"/home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist/releases","overwrite":true,"asar":false,"prune":true,"app_version":null,"afterCopy":[null],"afterExtract":[]} +0ms
  electron-packager Target Platforms: linux +0ms
  electron-packager Target Architectures: x64 +1ms
WARNING: The version parameter is deprecated, use electronVersion (or --electron-version in the CLI) instead
  electron-packager Inferring appVersion from version in /home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist/package.json +9ms
  electron-packager Application name: pman +0ms
  electron-packager Target Electron version: 1.6.5 +0ms
  electron-packager Downloading Electron with options {"platform":"linux","arch":"x64","version":"1.6.5"} +4ms
Packaging app for platform linux x64 using electron v1.6.5
  electron-packager Creating /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64-template +319ms
  electron-packager Extracting /home/ryan/.electron/electron-v1.6.5-linux-x64.zip to /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64-template +1ms
  electron-packager Initializing app in /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64/pman-linux-x64 from /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64-template template +1s
  electron-packager Ignored paths based on the out param: +1ms [ '/home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist/releases' ]
  electron-packager Running npm prune --production +3s
  electron-packager Renaming electron to pman in /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64/pman-linux-x64 +5s
  electron-packager Moving /tmp/electron-packager/linux-x64/pman-linux-x64 to /home/ryan/Documents/Development/bplayer4/dist/releases/pman-linux-x64 +0ms

What command line arguments are you passing? Alternatively, if you are using the API, what parameters are you passing to the packager() function?

I’m using the API, but my options argument is generated programmatically and is thus pretty tricky to post here. I’ve resorted to simply not setting the ‘icon’ property. The only reason I’m posting the issue here is that the icon works fine before I package the app, so I’m pretty sure it must be an issue with electron-packager and not with electron. Is there any way I could fix this, or is there some magical way to set the icon post-packaging that will work? The icon works everywhere else.

[zxdong262]

same issue, solved with --icon option,

exec(`${bin}/electron-installer-debian --src ${dir}/${name}-linux-x64 --dest ${dir}/installers/ --arch amd64 --icon ${dir}/${name}-linux-x64/resources/app/static/images/electerm-round-128.png`)

and I have set the icon option too, but without the --icon option will not work.

  // Create the browser window.
  win = new BrowserWindow({
    width,
    height,
    fullscreenable: true,
    //fullscreen: true,
    icon: resolve(__dirname, 'static/images/electerm-round-128.png')
  })

    "electron": "1.7.8",
    "electron-builder": "19.22.1",

[malept]

I would see what the path returned with app.getAppPath is and then see if the path you created for the icon actually exists.