.desktop files for app-in-snap

Didier Roche didrocks at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 8 05:50:04 UTC 2016


Le 06/08/2016 à 09:47, Vasilisc a écrit :
>> Please help me. If I launch the program in the Terminal - well done, but
>> I can't start program from Unity Launcher.
>>
>> I tried to change parameter Exec in
>> ~/.local/share/applications/app.desktop
>> Exec=app-name
>> Exec=snap-name.app-name
>> Exec=$SNAP/usr/bin/start-script.sh
>> Exec=$snap.$app (http://snapcraft.io/docs/snaps/structure)
>>
>> and studied case
>> https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/blob/master/vlc/setup/gui/vlc.desktop
>>
>>
>> but it didn't help.
>>
> suspect lines
> Aug  6 10:20:35 vb gnome-session[2377]: (gnome-software:2582):
> As-WARNING **: failed to rescan: Failed to parse
> /home/vasilisc/.local/share/applications/org-languagetool-gui-main.desktop
> file: cannot process file of type application/x-desktop
>
>
Hey Vasilisc,

You didn't provide your .desktop file in setup/gui/ directory. Do you
mind doing this?
I suspect your type is different from "Type=Application", which it
should be.

Didier





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