I’m assuming that this is just how it is using Wayland? The app icon for Open TV appears properly in the app menu and the system tray. However, in the icons-only-task-manager it appears as the Wayland icon.
what is the name of the process that the program is running? maybe the process is just identified as wayland 
. I keep telling myself one day I’m going to install something with wayland and try it out but I have yet to do so.
I’m pretty sure it’s because of your icon pack. I had the same thing with papirus icons and advanced radio player in the systray. There was some kind of icon there, but nothing pointed to radio
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I’ve edited the icon via edit applications to see if that would help. No go. But I’ll try the icons I have installed and see if anything changes.
EDIT: Tried Breeze/Breeze Dark, Ars Dark/Ars Light, Qogir/Quogir Dark, Slot Dark/Slot Light, the different Fluent variants, the different Kora variants. Wayland icon remained.
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I had this issue with a handful of apps when I was using Plasma 5. The only one that I’ve come across recently is manuskript. I remember finding a written tutorial on how to manually fix it, but that was before search engines became unusable.
I did find a Reddit post (of course) where someone links a YT video from TLE (included).
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/r1skri/is_there_a_way_to_fix_apps_showing_a_generic/
EDIT: see also- https://discuss.kde.org/t/bug-generic-wayland-icon-for-many-applications/2468
it’s not your fault, it’s OpenTV’s 
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Installed it for checking. Same icon here
But from where i can get some IPTV playlists ? 
Does this application have a .desktop shortcut?
I had this same issue with XnView MP and got the icon back?
By doing these steps. Essentially linking a window rule to the .desktop file. Of course change the .desktop name tot he one for your program. I know mine is KDE plasma but other DEs must have similar settings somewhere for anyone with different DE.
Open Window rules for application > add property > select “Desktop file name” > add value as “xnviewmp.desktop”
It is the rule at the bottom called “desktop file name” under appearance & fixes, I added that entry.
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@_Six, I gave it a shot. Added rule, rebooted. Not working, though.
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I was hoping that would work. I had the same thing happen to me and put up with the wayland icon for about 9 months after trying everything. And then tried again with this window rule and it worked after a couple hours doing different things, I was almost certain this would work for you.
Only other thing I could think of is changing it’s window rule from ‘apply initially’ to ‘force’.
Is there a .desktop file for it located here .local/share/applications/?
Or it may be here/usr/share/applications/.
OpenTV desktop file name (Open TV) does not match resource class name (open_tv), so task manager can not match the icon with window class.
You can rename it
sudo mv /usr/share/applications/Open\ TV.desktop /usr/share/applications/open_tv.desktop
and it should work.
No reboot necessary.
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@jake99, @_Six - Thanks, guys. I’m at work at the moment. I’ll look into your suggestions when I get home later this evening.
Yes, Open TV is in both locations as Open TV.desktop rather than open_tv.desktop. So I just deleted the Window Rule and re-did it. Instead of using open_tv for App Initially, I used Open TV. Seems to have worked fine.
Thanks!
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Nice, good to see it working now.
Also good to know that field doesn’t always need “.desktop” in it, in the event I come across another software requiring me to apply this setting.
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Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction! Much appreciated. 
Thanks for the instructions. That’s how it works for me too. I misunderstood your first post. I was only looking at the systray and not the taskbar. It wasn’t until the second time I looked, today, after reading through the topic again, that I noticed the same error
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The rename fixed the same issue I had
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I made a note of this instruction but didn’t get around to testing until now. In case anyone wants to know I went to my xnviewmp.desktop and changed the name to XnView.desktop and this resolved my issue too, so it seems the mismatch was the same. Only difference is I manually edited the filename from within dophin but the same thing though.
Nice to know there is an alternative method to fix. I assume this file won’t be overwritten by and update to break the icon again but it’s working so far.
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