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If I open Atom twice to edit different folders there is still only one icon in the taskbar, not two.

Switching between them constantly by having to click, wait for a preview to display, work out which is which, click it, have the screen refresh and animate is incredibly tedious and annoying.

How do I make each instance of the app have its own icon?

Is there a plugin that will do it for me?

Jacob Vlijm
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Richard
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  • Windows, belonging to one and the same window class, are represented by one icon in the launcher. A workaround is possible, to show an additional icon per instance (window). I would have to edit tis answer though: http://askubuntu.com/a/789680/72216 would that be acceptable to you? – Jacob Vlijm Aug 10 '16 at 08:55
  • Thank you for replying. But I do not understand the referenced answer. – Richard Aug 10 '16 at 14:20
  • What the linked answer basically does, is show a separate icon per window of an application. In the link, the setup is made for the terminal, but with an edit, it could work for any application. The native application icon will show however nevertheless, as a "mother"- icon. – Jacob Vlijm Aug 10 '16 at 14:25
  • It's 5 pages long. I'll never get that to work. I was hoping it was an Ubuntu option or something. – Richard Aug 10 '16 at 15:19
  • Most of it is explanation. Instructions are only a few steps. – Jacob Vlijm Aug 10 '16 at 18:01
  • referred link shows a couple of solutions either specific to scripts or having to build an executable (really?) or some fancy system settings... cmon on ubuntu 17.10 i cant even drop my .desktop files to the launch bar, even if the highlighted icons was latter a mess, we want to do a simple thing! in my case a couple of atom profiles. Is this asking too much? I have the .desktop files on that hidden folder all with proper icons. mac's start to look more customizeable. – neu-rah Oct 24 '17 at 02:23

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