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VirturalBox Version: 6.1.26r145957
Host: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel Version: 5.14
Desktop Environment: GNOME 40.5
Window Manager: Mutter
Icon Theme: Tela-blue-dark

All taskbar icons of my vms is a fallback icon which is used by applications that have no specific icon.

yasee wrote:Icon Theme: Tela-blue-dark

When the icon theme is default, do the Virtualbox icons show properly?

scottgus1 wrote:

yasee wrote:Icon Theme: Tela-blue-dark

When the icon theme is default, do the Virtualbox icons show properly?

No. Actually, there have been this problem since i installed VirtualBox in July. No matter what icon theme and gtk theme (including the default theme) i use, the problem remains.

It looks like we fail to provide a .desktop file for the virtual machine application, that is VirtualBoxVM. This is not much of a problem in meaningful desktop environments like Mate or KDE but since Gnome desktop fails to do anything properly it cannot get window icon. An xprop shows that mentioned application has proper window class and window icon, even in wayland. It gets worse by the fact that before creating machine window we create an invisible window to probe host monitor topology. With all this being said, we have to make sure that we install .desktop file for the VirtualBoxVM application and (maybe) set window class and icon of those invisible probe windows.

Whiskeyjack wrote:It looks like we fail to provide a .desktop file for the virtual machine application, that is VirtualBoxVM. This is not much of a problem in meaningful desktop environments like Mate or KDE but since Gnome desktop fails to do anything properly it cannot get window icon. An xprop shows that mentioned application has proper window class and window icon, even in wayland. It gets worse by the fact that before creating machine window we create an invisible window to probe host monitor topology. With all this being said, we have to make sure that we install .desktop file for the VirtualBoxVM application and (maybe) set window class and icon of those invisible probe windows.

Thanks. The icon is correct occasionally, but mostly it is not.

I have realized that I cannot get VirtualBox Manager Window and machine windows get taskbar icons on Ubuntu 21.04 Gnome. No matter what I tried they always showed up with blank (not the default "no icon" icon) icon. Ubuntu 20.04 does not have tat problem it looks like.

I found that moving the vm window to another workspace solved the problem. It seems that moving window among workspaces triggers gnome to get the icon.