IntelliJ IDEA lost icon after launch

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I changed to use JetBrains Toolbox App to manage IntelliJ IDEA/PyCharm/WebStorm (I have reinstalled all the JetBrains products using Toolbox App) in my Ubuntu 16.04.2 recent days. Now I have an issue: each time when I started IntelliJ IDEA from the Toolbox App or from the command line (./idea.sh), IntelliJ IDEA could run as I wished but without an icon in the launcher bar, only a white question mark. However, if I start it by double-click the thumbnail of it, everything would be OK, including a beautiful icon in my ubuntu launcher bar!

Does anyone know how to fix? This is not a big trouble, but I just want to make everything fine with my develop environment.

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ubuntuintellij-idea
I had similar problems on my fresh install but everything go fine on reboot. Which Desktop GUI are you using ? - HollyPony
See youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-149703. - CrazyCoder
unity@HollyPony - nick
@nick Have you tried to see if it's a relic of old installs ? You can edit your apps entries easily with alacarte and start the app "Menu". Then delete entries for JetBrains apps and reinstall. The icon menu is maybe still linked to the old path (and yes, as I know, it's impact whole system icon integration). - HollyPony
I will check right now!@HollyPony - nick

4 Answers

9
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I do not know if it would work for Gnome, but for KDE I fixed it in the next way:

  1. Open folder /home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/
  2. Find jetbrains-idea.desktop.
  3. Right mouse click on it, then select Properties
  4. Open Application tab
  5. Next to the Command section click Browse... button and select idea.sh file in /pathToIntelliJ/bin folder. (In my case the path was already correct, but it seems that selection the file again rewrite something and Icon works ok now).
  6. Click OK.

Also, according to this post, this bug must be fixed in 18.3 (now is 18.2.5)

7
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I'm using KDE, and the icon will show correctly everywhere but the favorites menu.

The issue appears to be that the icon selected is an svg instead of png. The .desktop file that others are instructing to right click on can instead be edited since it's basically a text file.

Open ~/.local/share/applications/jetbrains-idea.desktop in an editor.

Look for the line that starts with Icon= and change the .svg to .png.

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I had a similar issue, but not the same resolution. My icon completely disappeared after the last intellij upgrade. I fixed this by following the same steps as TitanFighter to get to the jetbrains-idea.desktop, but had a different fix, as the icon just disappeared from the desktop file. This solution was on Kubuntu 18.10.

  1. After opening Properties on jetbrains-idea.desktop, click the square next to the name of the file.
  2. Select the 'Other icons:' option and click 'Browse...'
  3. Navigate to the Intellij/bin folder and double click idea.png
2
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In my case on Ubuntu 18.04 with Plasma 5, I had a similar issue with WebStorm; I had two .desktop files in ~/.local/share/application and /var/lib/snapd/desktop/application directories. After removing .desktop file from ~/.local/share/application directory, all works fine.