[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1146739: imagej: desktop icon not working in GNOME 3 dock

Nathaniel Beaver nbeaverpublic at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 05:59:20 BST 2026


Source: imagej
Version: 1.54g-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

The desktop file for ImageJ is missing this line (see attached patch):

     StartupWMClass=ij-ImageJ

This is required for the ImageJ icon to be shown in the GNOME 3 dock. 
Background information for the curious:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry/latest/recognized-keys.html#StartupWMClass

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-ensure-a-launcher-icon-gets-linked-to-the-application-it-launches/67688

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1553339/launch-icon-displays-config-icon-rather-than-specific-icon

https://github.com/flathub/com.google.Chrome/issues/446


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.6
   APT prefers stable-security
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.95+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: 
LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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