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Firefox Nightly desktop file
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox Nightly
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Browse the Web
Exec=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/firefox --name firefox-nightly -P Nightly %u
Icon=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Nightly
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Keywords=web;browser;internet;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;profile-manager;
[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/firefox --name firefox-nightly --new-window -P Nightly %u
[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=New Private Window
Exec=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/firefox --name firefox-nightly --private-window -P Nightly %u
[Desktop Action profile-manager]
Name=Profile Manager
Exec=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/firefox --name firefox-nightly -P %u
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imi415 commented Jan 25, 2023

Hi,
Thanks for the desktop file.
It seems the WM class for Nightly has changed to 'firefox-nightly' (not sure for X11, as I am currently on wayland).
The final line which works for me is:

StartupWMClass=firefox-nightly

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zzag commented Jan 25, 2023

Huh, not sure why it would work. StartupWMClass is an X11 thingy. If you run firefox nightly with native wayland support, only two things should matter - the app id specified using --name firefox-nightly and the file name of the desktop file firefox-nightly.desktop.

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imi415 commented Jan 25, 2023

Thanks! I believe this is the problem. The .desktop file name does not match with my '--name' option. Seems GNOME also uses this StartWMClass in Xwayland session somehow.

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Hi,
I'm on X11 and I had to add --class firefox-nightly to the Exec:

Exec=/home/vlad/Applications/firefox-nightly/firefox --name firefox-nightly --class firefox-nightly -P Nightly %u

Otherwise, when lauching the nighly app, it was grouped with the standard firefox in the dock.

PS: Before that, I was using Wayland on Fedora (with Gnome), and the StartupWMClass did the trick. But on X11, I had to add the --class param

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