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I'm running Fedora 41 Plasma (KDE). There is an issue I'm getting with various apps where, after installing one and successfully setting up a command via the KDE Menu Editor, after a while the command ...
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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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I have one group/folder of applications in my applications Grid (Activities -> Launcher -> Show applications), called Utilities/Tools ("Utilitários"): I like this and would like very ...
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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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I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty. Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run ...
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The Problem I've used various application launchers like rofi, albert, wofi, dmenu, and others throughout my Linux years. While they have their pros and cons, one thing has always bothered me: they're ...
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I'm trying to switch from using dmenu to rofi on my system, on which I use i3wm. I have the following keybinding: bindsym $mod+Ctrl+d exec --no-startup-id rofi -combi-modi window#drun#run -show combi -...
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I have installed a webapp (Copilot) using edge in Fedora. I would like to launch the app using a shortcut but I cannot find the command to launch it. I imagine it should be a command launching the ...
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Update: Solved! See the bottom for what I did. To use a university's VPN, I tried to install the official GlobalProtect client for linux (I'm using Fedora, so I followed the Red Hat instructions). It ...
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I had tried to install package from developers' site/ root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# dir Telegram tsetup.4.8.9.tar.xz root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# tar -xvf tsetup.4.8.9.tar.xz ...
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I have a disk partition by the name 'other_jazz' at the location /media/sam/other_jazz. The find command in the Pop OS launcher doesn't search through the files inside the 'other_jazz' partition. I've ...
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[Desktop Entry] - Version=1.0 - Type=Application- Terminal=true - Icon=/home/Kali/Desktop/studio.png- Exec=sh /home/Kali/Desktop/scripts/name.sh - Name=/name.sh -
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I'm trying to launch neovim from my app launcher (which is wofi), but the thing is when I click on it's icon, nothing happens, I'm on archlinux with Sway as window manager. How can I get those apps to ...
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I'm using MX Linux 21 (Debian 11 based OS), I could run this command from terminal, but when I created a launcher with terminal=true, it didn't work, what I'm missing? The command is echo '2-2:1.0' | ...
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I'm not talking about a Windows EXE. I mean an actual Linux executable file. At first, I've been wondering whether Linux executables even have embedded icons, and it seems as though they do, because ...
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