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Doobla
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FireFox does not display its icon in Unity - RC1

Does anybody else experience this problem where, in Unity mode, FireFox's icon is not being displayed in the dock?

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rhind
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Just checked, I don't get a dock icon for Firefox either, looks like a bug to me.

Cheers

Russell

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rhind
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VS2005 has a similar issue, the dock icon doesn't appear.

However, the dock icons for both VS2005 and firefox appear if I launch them from the OS X shortcuts Fusion creates in the VM package then the dock icons appear. The difference now is that when I quit Firefox in the VM, its dock icon disappears, but quiting VS2005 never removes the icon from the dock, it stays around until you right-click on it and select quit.

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Russell

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Doobla
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I don't even get an icon in the Applications Folder inside the vm package. Very odd. It is as if it ignores the application's launch.

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Pat_Lee
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On my machine it works fine and I am getting a FireFox icon in the dock. Can you shut down your virtual machine. Select the virtual machine in the Finder and right click to Show Package Contents. Toss the Applications directory in your VM folder, which contains all the shortcuts to applications you have launched.

Then restart your VM. VMware Fusion will recreate these application shortcuts as you launch applications. There were some issues we have seen where older applications folder caused problems between Beta 4 and RC1.

Can you try this and let us know how it goes?

Pat

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rhind
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Thanks for the hint Pat, icons seems to work fine after deleting the applications folder.

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Russell

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Doobla
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It's odd that a simple folder could prevent new icons from showing, but alas it did fix the problem.

Thanks.

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rhind
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It's odd that a simple folder could prevent new icons

from showing, but alas it did fix the problem.

But the applications in that folder store preferences about the app inside the VM that it represents so I guess that info changed between b4 and rc1 and it didn't get upgraded by rc1.

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Russell

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GabrielM
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I reported this problem using your online support tool, but the answer I've received from tech support on this matter did not help me at all - they advised that I uninstall and then reinstall the VMware tools which did not help. Their latest reply seems to go along the same line:

1. Shut down Guest OS.

2. Uninstall the VMware Fusion Application.

3. Delete VMware Fusion Folder from /Users/Username/Library/Preferences.

4. Restart the system.

5. Install VMware Fusion RC1 version.

6. Open VMware Fusion application

7. Run the Windows VM.

8. Update VMware Tools in Guest OS.

I have not tried it yet, but my gut feeling is that it will not help.

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GabrielM
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I tried deleting the Applications folder inside the VM package, it fixed my problem.

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admin
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But the applications in that folder store preferences

about the app inside the VM that it represents so I

guess that info changed between b4 and rc1 and it

didn't get upgraded by rc1.

Exactly (as far as I understand, anyway).

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EMR
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I've also been experiencing erratic behaviour regarding the presence, or lack thereof, of icons in the Dock when using Unity. I thought the solution might lie in Pat's suggestion that we delete the Applications folder inside the VM package. After shutting down the VM, I did just that, then started my 64-bit Vista VM, ran IE7 and Minesweeper, turned Unity on and the only icon appearing in the Dock, apart from Fusion's, was IE, no signs of Minesweeeper, even though I was playing the thing!

Running on a Mac Pro with 2 Gb RAM. Mac OS X 10.4.10.

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