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Aaron Harrington
Aaron Harrington

Reputation: 532

Windows Electron Application Packaged with Electron Packager not displaying properly in task bar

I'm using Electron 1.4.13, and electron-packager 8.5.0. This is happening on Windows 7, 8, and 10. I am not using electron-builder because Squirrel did not meet all the requirements I needed for an installer so I am using Wix to create the Windows installer.

What is happening is that I define all of the file metadata with electron-packager, but whenever I run the application and right click the icon in the task bar, it says Electron instead of the file name. I've seen solutions that recommend creating a shortcut, but this is not an option, no shortcuts can be created from this application.

In the two images below, the first displays the executable's properties, and the second displays what is seen on the task bar. I also saw recommendations of setting the App User Model ID in the NodeJS code which I've done immediately after the app is ready:

app.setAppUserModelId('Company.ExampleName.Ex');

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm still experiencing this problem? Is there some other file metadata I can change to get this right?

The file properties of the executable

Windows task bar on windows 7

Upvotes: 3

Views: 694

Answers (3)

Sevcan Kurnaz
Sevcan Kurnaz

Reputation: 31

package.json file edit your AppName

"name": "Appname",
"productName": "Appname",

And use ( --version-string.ProductName="AppName" ) electron-packager

electron-packager . AppName --overwrite --asar=true --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --icon=icon/favicon.ico --prune=true --out=release-builds --version string.CompanyName=CE --version-string.FileDescription=CE --version-string.ProductName="AppName"icon

This feature is specific to Windows. !!!

Upvotes: 0

Jens Habegger
Jens Habegger

Reputation: 5446

There seems to be an open issue at Electrons Github page, you could chime in there and try to get the attention of one of the contributors.

Upvotes: 0

Dennis W
Dennis W

Reputation: 961

Try setting a value for the --version-string parameter in your call to electron-packager. This property is specific to Windows.

electron-packager . --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --version-string.FileDescription=Company.ExampleName.Ex --asar

Upvotes: 0

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