Facebook Not Appearing in Launcher

Asked by Steven Heidel

All my unity-webapps work with chromium, except for Facebook. It popped up the bar to ask me to install, I did, and the unity-webapps-facebookmessenger package was installed. However, it does not appear in the dash or launcher.

I think I've traced the problem to a missing .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications, all the working ones are there but Facebook isn't. However, I don't know what the contents of the Facebook .desktop file should be so now I'm stuck. Any suggestions?

steven@steven-PC:~$ ls /home/steven/.local/share/applications/
GMailmailgooglecom.desktop livecommaillivecom.desktop
GoogleCalendargooglecom.desktop mimeapps.list
GoogleDocsdocsgooglecom.desktop Tumblrtumblrcom.desktop
Googleplusgooglecom.desktop Twittertwittercom.desktop
Launchpadlaunchpadnet.desktop

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
#1

Fill a bug for the missing file..
but first try to reinstall the package.. unity-webapps-facebookmessenger

Thanks

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Steven Heidel (stevenheidel) said :
#2

Tried uninstalling and installing package, closing/reopening chromium, purging the package, restarting the computer, still no icon.

steven@steven-PC:~$ sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps-facebookmessenger
[sudo] password for steven:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  unity-webapps-facebookmessenger
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 101 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 191075 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing unity-webapps-facebookmessenger ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
steven@steven-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install unity-webapps-facebookmessenger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  unity-webapps-facebookmessenger
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7,316 B of archives.
After this operation, 101 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package unity-webapps-facebookmessenger.
(Reading database ... 191065 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking unity-webapps-facebookmessenger (from .../unity-webapps-facebookmessenger_2.2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Setting up unity-webapps-facebookmessenger (2.2) ...
steven@steven-PC:~$ ls /home/steven/.local/share/applications/
GMailmailgooglecom.desktop livecommaillivecom.desktop
GoogleCalendargooglecom.desktop mimeapps.list
GoogleDocsdocsgooglecom.desktop Tumblrtumblrcom.desktop
Googleplusgooglecom.desktop Twittertwittercom.desktop
Launchpadlaunchpadnet.desktop UnityWebTutorialdeveloperubuntucom.desktop

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Steven Heidel (stevenheidel) said :
#3

It also doesn't appear in the messaging menu either. Install unity-webapps-facebookapps didn't help, don't know how those two packages are related if at all.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
#4

Yes , I see that the .desktop file is missing.
As a workaround you can try this application
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/fogger-can-turn-facebook-into-an-integrated-desktop-app-on-ubuntu

It might help you to turn the facebook into integrated app..

but this is just a workaround , the main problem remains and it would be good and useful if you report a bug.

Do you know how to report a bug ?
If No , then read here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Thanks

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