Weechat Terminal

Custom icon for terminal application in gnome-shell

Hey,

The problem

Recently I wanted to create separated “window” for my weechat so I can easily alt-tab to it.

I’ve wrote the .desktop file and place it to ~/.local/share/applications so gnome-shell (I’m on ubuntu 17.10) will show me it.

And it did, BUT when I start the weechat the icon turned to “terminal-like”.

Hm…

play with terminal icon

Ok, there is terminals like xfce4-terminal that allows to set custom icon when terminal is starting… so let’s try