MMEX icon in ALT+TAB is blurry

[ovari]

MMEX icon in ALT+TAB is blurry. Are vector images used in MMEX? If bitmap images are used, should they be replaced with vector images?

Thank you

Money Manager Ex
• Version: 1.6.5-Beta.1 64-bit
• Built on: Jul 1 2023 03:27:17
• Database version: 18 (aes128cbc)
MMEX is using the following support products:
• wxWidgets 3.1.7 (wxGTK 3.24)
• wxSQLite3 4.9.1 (SQLite 3.40.0)
• RapidJSON 1.1.0
• Lua 5.3.6
• libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.14
• gettext 0.21
• apexcharts.js
Built with:
• CMake 3.22.1
• GNU Make 4.3
• GCC 11.2.0
Running on:
• Ubuntu.22.04.jammy
• Linux Mint 21.1 "vera"
• Linux 5.15.0-76-generic x86_64
• (UTF-8)
• 0x0 0bit 192x192ppi

[n-stein]

SVG is already used for Linux:

moneymanagerex/CMakeLists.txt

Lines 643 to 647 in 8860738

	# Icons
	if(LINUX)
	install(FILES
	resources/mmex.svg
	DESTINATION share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps RENAME org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.svg)

You can try editing your org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop file and add the line:

StartupWMClass=mmex

Maybe it will help.

[ovari]

Thank you @n-stein for your comment.

Sorry, don't know.

@joshua-stone can you please check?

Thank you

[joshua-stone]

The SVG should be used:

$ find /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/files/share/icons -type f
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/files/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.svg
$ find /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export -type f
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/share/applications/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.svg
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/share/metainfo/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.appdata.xml
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/share/mime/packages/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.mime.xml
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/bin/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX
$ grep -i "^Icon" /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/export/share/applications/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop
Icon=org.moneymanagerex.MMEX

The line StartupWMClass=mmex isn't present in the desktop file however:

https://github.com/moneymanagerex/moneymanagerex/blob/master/resources/dist/linux/share/applications/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop

[joshua-stone]

Try to make a copy of the desktop file:

$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
$ cp /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX/current/active/files/share/applications/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/org.moneymanagerex.MMEX.desktop

And see if setting StartupWMClass=mmex or StartupWMClass=org.moneymanagerex.MMEX does anything.

[ovari]

Have not changed any code.

As shown in the image below, opened both developmental release and Flatpak.

Developmental release shows blurry image.
Flatpak shows clear image.

[ovari]

The SVG should be used.

Yes, seems to be the case. What needs to changed so that the non-flatpak version also uses SVG? Thank you

[ovari]

1. Open Files (aka Nemo)
2. Navigate to /usr/share
3. Right-click on applications and select Open as root
4. Enter password
5. Right-click on MMEX Money Manager and select Open With Text Editor
6. After Type=Application, on a new line add StartupWMClass=mmex
7. Save file
8. Close file
9. Works, thank you