How to package with an app icon for linux?

[jwir3]

(This is also a question on stackoverflow).

I have an electron app, arbitrator. It uses electron-boilerplate as a base. Within that electron application, I have an icon specified in resources/icons/512x512.png. When I run the application using npm start, the icon shows up on the Gnome Unity bar.

If, however, I run npm run release, and then run cd dist/linux && ./Arbitrator, the application runs, but the icon doesn't show up in the Unity bar (just the default icon). Further, if I run the ./Arbitrator command from the source repository working directory, then it finds the resources/icons/512x512.png file and shows it in the unity bar.

Is there a way I can make sure that the icon is shown for the app, regardless of how it's run (it seems to be referencing the path for the icon locally, rather than using the asar file for resources).

[black-snow]

Taking a quick look at electron builder's options I don't see an icon-option for linux at all.
Guess you should rather post this issue there.

[jwir3]

@black-snow Ah... this appears to be electron-userland/electron-builder#498.