Questions tagged [.desktop]
A .desktop file describes how a particular program is to be launched, how it appears in menus, etc. It is used by Freedesktop-compliant environments such as Gnome, KDE and Xfce.
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Desktop Action in .desktop file: How to split file list %F if file paths contain spaces?
In the KDE file manager Dolphin, you can right-click files and Dolphin offers a context menu what to do with the file, e.g. send as an attachment by email.
These so called desktop actions are ...
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Play MPV stream via a Shortcut?
I am using MPV player from the Ubuntu 22 terminal command line, for example:
> mpv rtsp://10.11.12.13:554/camera/default.h264
where 10.11.12.13 is my machine's IP.
I wanted to create a shortcut ...
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A .desktop entry for a link in my dock always overwrites my edits, so it doesn't show up
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Hi, I'm trying to make a .desktop entry for jetbrains toolbox (a program), because for some reason, the desktop entry they included isn't showing the icon on my system (popOS 22.04, a Ubuntu ...
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Making Neovim from GitHub the default file handler for text/source files
There may be a simple answer to this, but if there is, I'm not aware of it.
I've downloaded the latest GitHub release of Neovim, because the one in the apt repositories is outdated by a few major ...
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Can't get .desktop files to launch in KDE
I've recently set up a new computer running Kubuntu 25.04 (KDE 6.3.4), and I have a few .desktop files I've brought over from my previous computer (which was using Gnome), where they worked fine. ...
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KDE Desktop file to open a URL: Errors about cgroups no such process
I'm trying to get mailto URLs to open in gmail on KDE. Viagee used to be the accepted approach, but this seems to have been killed by Google revoking the app from its application tore and ignoring ...
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How do I get a local application launcher to show up in Fedora 41 using Gnome?
I've created a desktop launcher called Firefox.desktop for a version of Firefox that is not tied to my Linux distribution (Fedora 41) and placed it in ~/.local/share/applications and even after ...
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Run a GUI application on startup using Services with restart always
After creating an electron application that starts in full screen mode, how do i have it start on machine startup using a service, and always stay alive? When I tried running the app using a service, ...
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Steam: "Could not save properties due to insufficient write access"
I've gone ahead and installed Steam (flathub) from the Discover Store on KDE Neon, and I have a Steam Icon on my desktop.
What I want to do is set it to run with my dedicated GPU. So I right-clicked ...
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Default applications in linux open suse leap 15?
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Have linux open suse leap ~15!!!
Can't open org.kde.discover.desktop file which located in /home/etc/Documents/Apps/ in folder by created me.
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May be I removed something and now ...
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Multiple desktop files using the same system wide /usr/share/application desltop files
I have an application in which I have created a /usr/share/application/foo.desktop from my dpkg.
I wish to have multiple instances of LINK types on my ~/Desktop/ which vary only the Name and Exec. It ...
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Orchestrating singleshoot services, dependent services, desktop files and ports as a user
I am not sure how to title this, but essentially, I am looking for advice on to how to best implement the following. The specifics I can search online, but I am not sure how to glue it.
I am trying to ...
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.desktop files on Red Hat desktop launches gedit ONLY from desktop shortcut
I have .desktop files (shortcuts) on a RHEL 8.8 machine that are set up correctly and work on other RHEL systems, but for some reason, whenever trying to launch (double click) on these desktop files ...
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Is `xdg-open`, `gtk-launch`, or `gio-launch` preferable for invoking `.desktop` files via the CLI?
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I've looked through their documentation, but I've not located any significant differences. Since their sources are fairly unintelligible to me, does anyone know of a reason to choose one ...
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Starting application with I/O redirection via *.desktop file
I start music or video with right click and "open with" in Thunar (Xfce). For every entry, there is a *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. I want to ...
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