Icon: tray and alt-tab

I am using Lutris to run Scrivener*, and I could swear, when I first loaded, the Scrivener logo (silver “S”) was in the tray and in the alt-tab. I do have a Scriv icon in my tray to load the program, but now, when I load the program, the Lutris logo pops up (otter with an orange ball), and that’s the icon that comes up when I alt-tab as well. (I would take a screenshot as proof, but I’m so so new at Linux that I do not yet know how… sigh…).

Has something gone wrong, or is that the expected behaviour?

Did I mess it up somehow?

Can I change it so that the Scrivener logo will show up in the tray/alt-tab menu?

*Thank you fifty times to whoever automated the Scrivener installation, by the way. I don’t know who it was–you’re a game resource, after all–but whoever it was, they have made my transition to Linux possible (because I ~require~ Scrivener).

Unlike Windows, behaviour will depend on your choice of Linux distro and the desktop system it uses - you might have Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE (+Plasma,) or XFCE to name a few.

For me, (Linux Mint 22 using Cinnamon) I installed this just to see how it behaved - it doesn’t minimise to the tray (I can’t find an option to do that, even Googled it) and it just goes onto the taskbar. Those Icons appear as the silver S as you say, and alt-tab displays correctly.

It could be your desktop system is doing a tray minimise, in which case it is tweaking Windows behaviour. You might have to install some icons for it to appear properly (since it is a WINE application, not a Linux one) or maybe reset your icon cache.
Again, that will depend on your chosen Linux distro - but hey, at least we have options, right? :slight_smile:

I cannot believe I forgot to state my distro. Rookie mistake. I’m on LMDE 6, so I have a tray and a start menu with “favourites” as well as the alt-tab menu. Does that change things?

Btw, my current workaround is to chance the Lutris icon to the Scrivener logo bc that’s all I use Lutris for, but it’s a little awkward, so I’d love to hear more ideas.

And I just read your message more carefully. You’re on the same distro (basically), and you’re experiencing different behaviour, so something’s gone wrong with my installation.

I am wondering if there’s a toggle I hit at some point without realizing or if I should reinstall Scriv in Lutris and see if that changes anything. The amount of tweaking of a new installation is pretty minimal.

Suggestions are welcome.

Well, assuming that LMDE6 and Mint 22 are using the same Cinnamon. Components vary - mine are between 6.2.0 and 6.2.9, and we haven’t touched on Lutris and WINE versions yet :slight_smile:

I’m using the default Mint-y theme with a single workspace.
I forced a reset of Cinnamon to defaults (including wiping out files.) I reinstalled the latest version of scrivener. Again, taskbar and alt-tab icons as expected. Using the latest Lutris from git, and WINE staging. No other changes.

One thing that still strikes me as odd is that you stated “tray” not “taskbar”.
Perhaps create a brand new user with defaults to verify? If it is the same and you are still getting a tray icon, you might have a Cinnamon applet tweaking behaviour. After that you’re down to a quirky theme, icon cache, and/or a maybe a Cinnamon reset if you’ve cycled though a few upgrades.

Yeah, there are a lot of variables. I’m using Lutris via flatpak, so v0.5.17, and I don’t have Wine installed separately, so it’s whatever comes with Lutris, and I’m on Cinnamon 6.2.9.

I only called it a “tray” because I can never remember the names of the DE elements. It’s a real pain. Taskbar? Tray? Bar? Plank? Start Menu? They’re all vaguely arbitrary, so I have a hard time remembering them.

At any rate, I’m talking about the same elements as you: the bar on the bottom where the programs appear. The menu at the bottom left where you can search for and activate programs. etc.

I’ll try resetting my icon cache and creating a new user. Those are good ideas!

Flatpak is hit or miss with what it shows in the Alt Tab, but on Mint it doesn’t show the launched game icon just the lutris icon - Switch to deb version (not the one from Mints repos, it is too old) by going to the Downloads → Ubuntu on lutris.net and follow the link to the git page
Download the 0.5.17 deb file and install by right clicking → open with gdebi
While you are on the git page, click on the wiki and go to the Install drivers which will pass you to a correct wiki page with the instructions you need - ignore the Mint warning, it is for users of 21.0.
If you are using nvidia, you need to modify the installation command to select the correct driver version (the script has 535 AS A PLACEHOLDER change this to match what you are using, caveat is don’t use 560 atm it is broken on Ubuntu)
Finally click on the wine dependencies in the git wiki and install them.

That should get you going and if you are lucky, your game will show in lutris from your flatpak install

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