Questions[plank](ubuntu)

I have created a .desktop file for octave-cli, which is the command line version of GNU Octave. When I double click the .desktop file (which has the icon of Octave, and is pinned in XFCE Panel), the opened terminal window has a icon of Terminal (not of Octave).

Is there a way to make command line programs use their own icons throughout?

This also happens when I drag the .desktop file to a dock like Plank.

To clarify, the .desktop file does have the icon I had set. But when I double click it, it opens in a terminal with a terminal icon. I want it to open in a terminal (obviously) with a octave icon, to make it look like a standalone software.

I'm using the Plank dock (v.0.11.4) for my apps in Ubuntu 19.04. The Android Emulator (opened from Android Studio) does not appear next to the other open applications.

Is it possible to show it in the dock as an independent application?

(The weird part is that it DOES appear in the alt+tab menu but not in the dock itself)

The emulator can be launched from the terminal as well with the command:

emulator -avd emulator_name

I need to create a .desktop shortcut for 'Show Applications', so that I can pin it to the Plank dock to view all applications and search.

There is a blue light icon below any open programs on Plank. I have disabled the function to have icons on plank that are not pinned to it, but the blue light persists on icons that are pinned. I haven't found any answers on how to get rid of it.

Is there any way to disable launcher mouse hover tooltips in Plank ? I would really like to achieve this. Adding the line gtk-enable-tooltips = 0 to my .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home folder doesn't disable hover tips in Plank. I'm on Xubuntu 14.04.