How can I modify my launchers to improve matching?

Another I thing I noticed is that, when I launch Eclipse, a new icon is created on AWN (it is not matched).
If I keep Eclipse open and restart AWN, it will now be matched.

What version of awn?

The about window says:
0.4.1-rewrite-bzr699-lucid1-1

run xprop on the eclipse window and look for the WM_CLASS(STRING) = line in the output.

There will be two values. You want to choose one that is unique to Eclipse (if on of them says something generic like "Java" then use to the other value).

Edit the desktop file for eclipse (it's _probably_ in /usr/share/applications/ ) and add a entry along the lines of

StartupWMClass = eclipse

(replace eclipse with an exact duplicate of the one of the WM_CLASS values)

You may need to restart awn but this will _probably_ resolve the issue.

Yeap, this is the same solution used by Docky.

xprop returns:
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Eclipse", "Eclipse"

I have a desktop file in my ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers with this line already.
I copied this launcher to AWN and still does not work. (This is what I did with Docky)

I also tried creating a launcher in /usr/share/applications with the same content, but still nothing.

Do you know if I am doing something wrong or if there are any other solutions?
Thank you very much in any case!

are you sure that is the launcher that is being used. You can check the paths for the launcher by starting gconf-editor and navigate to /apps/awn-applet-taskmanager/ and check the launch_paths key.

You were right, it was not using any of my launchers.
I changed it to use the same that Docky uses, but AWN still doesn't match :(

Just to make sure, you did restart awn after making the changes? I'll assume yes unless you reply otherwise.

I'll see if I can get Eclipse installed on my system later this weekend (last time I attempted it did not go well)

I restarted awn, my session and the machine, just to be sure!

I have Eclipse installed from the package, not the one from Synaptic.
I just downloaded it, unpacked and created the launcher myself.

The links to download are:
32 bits: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/SR2/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz
64 bits: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo/SR2/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

The installation is pretty straight forward if you already have a Java virtual machine.

Thank you very much, moonbeam!!!
Yo you are being awesomely helpful :)

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Setting status to Open. Have Eclipse installed for testing purposes now.

Hey Moonbeam, sorry that I couldn't reply earlier, how did it go?
Thanks!

luizfar,

I see why there's an issue. Just haven't got around to fixing it yet. Maybe this weekend.

Converted into a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592698

Thanks! This solved an on-going "annoyance" I've had with NetBeans (another java IDE).