Background

I am trying to have an Elixir desktop application, and I am using elixir-desktop-app as a starting point.

Problem

The only thing I want is to have an icon represent my app. However, this is not happening (left side bar has what appears to be an empty icon instead of a real icon):

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I ran this application with the following commands:

• mix deps.get
• cd assets/
• npm install
• cd ..
• mix assets.deploy
• ./run

And when I run the script, I see no errors:

$ ./run 
Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.1.5] [source] [64-bit] [smp:12:12] [ds:12:12:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]

warning: use Mix.Config is deprecated. Use the Config module instead
  config/dev.exs:1


12:05:52.202 [info]  Application eex started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.208 [info]  Application mime started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.208 [info]  Child Agent of Supervisor Plug.Crypto.Application started
Pid: #PID<0.283.0>
Start Call: Agent.start_link(#Function<0.16488927/0 in Plug.Crypto.Application."-fun.start_crypto_keys/0-">)
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.211 [info]  Application plug_crypto started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.213 [info]  Child :telemetry_handler_table of Supervisor :telemetry_sup started
Pid: #PID<0.288.0>
Start Call: :telemetry_handler_table.start_link()
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.213 [info]  Application telemetry started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.214 [info]  Child Plug.Upload of Supervisor Plug.Application started
Pid: #PID<0.293.0>
Start Call: Plug.Upload.start_link([])
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.215 [info]  Application plug started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.216 [info]  Child :pg of Supervisor #PID<0.297.0> (Supervisor.Default) started
Pid: #PID<0.298.0>
Start Call: :pg.start_link(Phoenix.PubSub)
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.216 [info]  Application phoenix_pubsub started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.216 [info]  Application phoenix_view started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.222 [info]  Child Phoenix.CodeReloader.Server of Supervisor Phoenix.Supervisor started
Pid: #PID<0.304.0>
Start Call: Phoenix.CodeReloader.Server.start_link([])
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.222 [info]  Child Phoenix.Transports.LongPoll.Supervisor of Supervisor Phoenix.Supervisor started
Pid: #PID<0.305.0>
Start Call: DynamicSupervisor.start_link([name: Phoenix.Transports.LongPoll.Supervisor, strategy: :one_for_one])
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: :infinity
Type: :supervisor
 
12:05:52.222 [info]  Application phoenix started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.235 [info]  Child Gettext.ExtractorAgent of Supervisor #PID<0.309.0> (Supervisor.Default) started
Pid: #PID<0.310.0>
Start Call: Gettext.ExtractorAgent.start_link([])
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 5000 
Type: :worker
 
12:05:52.235 [info]  Application gettext started at :nonode@nohost
 
12:05:52.250 [info]  Child :disk_log_sup of Supervisor :kernel_safe_sup started
Pid: #PID<0.311.0>
Start Call: :disk_log_sup.start_link()
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 1000
Type: :supervisor
 
12:05:52.250 [info]  Child :disk_log_server of Supervisor :kernel_safe_sup started
Pid: #PID<0.312.0>
Start Call: :disk_log_server.start_link()
Restart: :permanent
Shutdown: 2000
Type: :worker
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[watch] build finished, watching for changes...
[notice] Connecting to UNIX socket: "/run/user/1000/bus"

[notice] DBUS auth: sending initial data

[notice] Got GUID '027f216ba8c2148b5e89683862860b5f' from the server

[notice] Succesfully negotiated UNIX FD passing

[notice] Calling "/"::"org.freedesktop.DBus".:Hello([])

I understand this can be an issue from my OS version (although I found nothing indicating that):

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

I also tried replacing the image inside static/icon.png with something else, but it didn’t work either.

Questions

• Am I doing something wrong?
• Will this same icon show up in both Windows and Linux?