Fixing Double Sublime Text Icons on Fedora 25
Published on 16 Feb 2017 · Filed in Information · 135 words (estimated 1 minutes to read)In my previous post on how to install Sublime Text 3 (ST3) on Fedora 25, I mentioned that I have observed instances where launching ST3 via the subl command creates an additional icon in the Dash. While searching for a solution to an issue with LibreOffice icons, I found a fix for this problem.
The fix is to add this line to the sublime-text.desktop file (typically found in /usr/share/applications):
StartupWMClass=subl
This tells Fedora and GNOME that when a window with the WMClass of “subl” appears, it should be considered a Sublime Text window. Once you add this line to the sublime-text.desktop file, then launching ST3 either via the GUI or via the subl command should create only a single ST3 icon in the Dash.
Now, back to trying to figure out this LibreOffice icon issue…