Vivaldi on native wayland not showing app_id

michaelamadio

I use vivaldi-stable and vivaldi-snapshot regularly as my daily drivers on Puppy Linux running Labwc wayland compositor and sfwbar as the taskbar and there is an issue with both latest series (stable 5.2x and snapshot 5.3x) not making the app_id known to the compositor and the task bar. I will point out that running as an Xwayland application this is not the case, only under native wayland.

The symptoms of this is that in the Labwc OSD (has a similar OSD to openbox) when I A-Tab there is no actual exposure of 'vivaldi' in the app column.

Further, no app icon appears in the taskbar (and yes, I do have them in hicolor theme and and all of my custom icon themes, both stable and snapshot - work with Xwayland).

I worked with LBCrion(sfwbar) and Labwc maintainers on github reporting and fixing bugs and am 99% certain that it is not the shortcoming of labwc, or sfwbar

Points of note:

this behaviour was not apparent in vivaldi-snapshot when it was the 5.2x series
this behaviour does not occur when running latest brave-browser beta ; the icon appears and the entry appears in the OSD
vivaldi is fine if run as Xwayland
yes, I know Puppy runs as root and how dangerous that is and all but the browser and all internet facing apps I use run as unprivileged user 'Spot' (a system 'user')

Thanks for Vivaldi, and thanks for looking at this issue.

michaelamadio

Latest snapshot Vivaldi 5.3.2679.46 snapshot (vivaldi-snapshot --version) the issues persists. I believe it is bug report VB-88191 in the Vivaldi system, (thanks to @Ruarí over at Mastodon for that info).

Thanks again.