Script to launch Slack on Xubuntu with an icon

slack.sh

#!/bin/bash -xe
# adapted from https://launchpadlibrarian.net/422519169/slack via https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfwm4/+bug/1827302/comments/12

ICON=/snap/slack/current/usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png

nohup /snap/bin/slack

WINDOWS=
while [ -z "$WINDOWS" ]
do
    WINDOWS=(`wmctrl -lx | fgrep slack.Slack | cut -f1 -d' '`)
    sleep 1
done

for slack_window in ${WINDOWS[@]}; do
    /snap/xseticon/current/bin/xseticon -id ${slack_window} $ICON || echo xseticon failed, ignoring
done

Thanks

Thanks for posting this! 🙂

For it to work when not installed via DEB file, replace lines 4 and 6 with

ICON=/usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png
nohup /usr/bin/slack &

respectively.