I would like to use dmenu as my launcher instead of the Gnome3-overlay that is displayed after hitting the super-key. From the Gnome3-overlay, I am able to launch both apps, gnome settings, and wine programs. In dmenu, I am so far only able to launch apps, and I can't seem to find the gnome settings program or any of my wine apps. When I tried other launcher, such as synapse, they were able to find both the settings and wine apps, just like with the gnome-overlay. I prefer dmenu because it is the fastest and most aesthetically pleasing launcher I have come across. Is there a way to include shortcuts to the gnome setting program and my wine apps in dmenu? I am using Antegros Linux with Gnome 3.22 and dmenu 0.1 (specifically, the dmenu2 package from the AUR). --- ### Update For the gnome settings app, I figured out the name is gnome-control-center although it is called "Settings" in the Gnome3-overlay window. Adding the -z flag to dmenu helped by enabling fuzzy matching. I also found out that the keyboard subsection of the settings menu is launched via gnome-control-center keyboard, which is a little bothersome to type every time since it does not autocomplete. It seems like dmenu will find everything that I put on my $PATH, but I am not super keen on including all the desktop shortcuts there. Other launchers such as p-menu includes everything on $PATH and all the .desktop files on the system, which is the preferred behavior to me. p-menu does only seem to launch within a terminal, rather than as a popup (the latter being faster for me), so for the time being, I am using albert, which works great. I would still be interested in dmenu or a similar launcher, if they include .desktop-files.

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 from the terminal. Switching the default back fixes the issue, but I would like to keep using Ghostty as my default. I haven't tried anything described in this post, however This issue was described here and was only "fixed" by switching back. The only shortcut I really use is Neovim so I will use that as the example here: The following is a screenshot for the settings of the launcher When I run this launcher, a blank Ghostty terminal opens and I receive a popup titled Configuration Errors:

One or more configuration errors were found while loading the configuration. Please
  review the errors below and reload the configuration or ignore the erroneous lines.
nvim: invalid field

My current theory is that when I use the launcher, the command

nvim

is run in the terminal, as this replicates the behavior. Why this is happening, I have no idea. It could have to do with the way Ghostty is run as the default Terminal, perhaps its launcher is broken? (For reference this is my first week with Linux so go easy on me, but I had trouble installing Ghostty since there isn't an official version for the Testing version of Debian which is what Kali runs on right now. With much difficulty, I was able to do it using Snapd, so perhaps this is why it's all broken) Please let me know what other information may help, I apologize that I don't know what else may assist. Any and all help is appreciated, thank you for your time!

I'm use to opening my Task Manager with Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Windows 11. Is there a way I can set a shortcut key for the KDE System Monitor app so that it also opens using the same Ctrl+Shift+Esc shortcut on SteamOS Desktop Mode? If it's not possible, is there perhaps a default shortcut key for the KDE System Monitor app that I can use to open it?

I am wondering how can I create a program ( e.g. VS Code) desktop shortcut on Kal Linux Gnome interface. So that I click the desktop shortcut and the program runs. Unfortunately, I cannot find this information anywhere in the system or the internet, anybody have any ideas?

I have created a desktop shortcut for a npm application called TMXEditor, but it doesn't work. I can launch the app if I do cd /home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor && npm start on a terminal. I put that in a bash file /home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor/start.sh. The application runs if I just run that script in a terminal. Its exact contents are:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor && npm start

So I have created the .desktop file pointing to that:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TMXEditor
Exec=/home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor/start.sh
Icon=/home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor/icons/tmxeditor.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Translation;
Comment=
Path=/home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor

The .desktop file is saved as /home/souto/.local/share/applications/TMXEditor.desktop. I can see the shortcut in Rofi, but when I run it from there the application will not start. I have also tried putting Exec=xfce4-terminal -e "/home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor/start.sh. In that case, I can see a terminal blinking for a fraction of a second but still the application will not run. Both the .desktop and the bash files are executable:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 souto souto 296 feb 19 14:27 /home/souto/.local/share/applications/TMXEditor.desktop
-rwxrwxrwx 1 souto souto 67 feb 19 13:53 /home/souto/Apps/maxprograms/TMXEditor/start.sh

My desktop environment is Xfce 4.18 (on arch linux) and I normally use zsh 5.9 as the shell. I'd appreciate some help to debug this shorcut. Thanks.

I'm using a LXDE desktop. I created a shortcut in the desktop to a python program, which can be passed files to, which are then opened in the GUI. I mean passing files (file absolute paths) to the command by drag'n'dropping them over the shortcut on the desktop. In fact this is already working, but only if I set Terminal=true in the Desktop Entry, which obviously makes the terminal be opened. I wanted to know if there's a way to pass the arguments to the command without the need to open the terminal. I'm creating the shortcut like this: [Desktop Entry] Name=TBOPlayer Comment=UI for omxplayer Exec=python /path/to/tboplayer/tboplayer.py "%F" Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/python.xpm Terminal=true Type=Application Is there a way to do this?

After installing PyCharm on Pop! OS (by extracting the download) there is no easy way to run the program. I have probably installed it in my Documents folder. Not sure what the convention is. To run PyCharm I need to go to the folder pycharm-community-2019.2.4/bin, open terminal and run ./pycharm.sh Any way to make my life easier?

I am trying to run desktop shortcut as root user, willing to see password prompt on opening shortcut. pkexec does the thing, but it doesn't change user - either i run it from terminal - it always give me a prompt for the current user who is not sudo. pkexec --user root [command] results in Authentication is needed to run [command] as the superuser, Authenticating as: mylocal-not-sudo-user How can i change user to root? (i tried gksudo, but it doesn't pop up prompt on chortcut opening)

Is there a way to make a icon shortcut on the taskbar to open emacs by running SNAP=1 SNAP_NAME=1 SNAP_REVISION=1 /home/felipe/emacs/src/emacs in the terminal when I click on it? I asked this on the emas stack exchange wrongly, and was redirected to specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest and to use a .desktop file to do this, but this doesn't really answer my question, how do I do this? And is there a way to make it so that when I run emacs by this method the terminal doesn't keep open as a window on the background?

I can create a shortcut in Chrome with More tools > Create shortcut. For Windows the documentation suggests that this will create some kind of file on the Desktop which users can click to open the shortcut. On Linux, not running a desktop environment, I see no such files. Yet, I would really like to have a script which I could run to open my shortcut. How can I do this? I tried looking in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/chromium but couldn't find anything promising. Is there something I'm missing?

I have made a directory on my Linux Mint desktop called "Ungoogled Chromium shortcuts". It contains one .desktop file per proxy I have access to. If I open this directory and double-click one of the shortcuts in there, it opens Ungoogle Chromium with the correct --proxy setting. Now I'm trying to make it so that, instead of manually opening the directory and picking one of the shortcuts, I can just click a shortcut directly on the desktop to open one of those shortcuts at random. How would I accomplish this? (Without installing any extra software.)

I recently did a clean install of Linux Mint 17.3 with Cinnamon on my machine. Before the clean install, if I right clicked on a file or folder in nemo, the menu would have a 'create shortcut' option. Now after the clean install, that option isn't there. I've gone through the nemo preferences and I can't find any option to enable it. After some searching I found out a keyboard shortcut for making file shortcuts in nemo (ctrl+shift+click and drag), but I'd much rather the more intuitive (and memorable) right click menu option. Similarly, other right click options that are now missing are - copy to - other pane - home - Downloads - etc - move to - other pane - home - Downloads - etc How can I get those options back as well? I've tried searching through the Nemo preferences, but to no avail.

When double-clicking a folder icon on the desktop, I expect that folder to be opened in a file browser. On my system, the geany editor is opened instead. Uninstalling geany solves the problem. Re-installing nautilus and geany does not solve the problem. Environment: * Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS * Gnome 3.36.8 * geany 1.37.1-2~16.04 * Nautilus (aka files) 3.36.3-stable Any help resolving this problem will be highly appreciated.

I've installed a new version of an app. Currently it's GUI shortcut leads to /usr/bin/flameshot But I've installed it in a different path and now I run it from the terminal like this: cd ~/Applications/Flameshot; ./Flameshot-0.10.1.x86_64.AppImage How can I replace the GUI shortcut to run the new version without blocking the terminal (background)

Today i downloaded the latest installer(eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz) of eclipse from the official website and i installed in my system. now i want to create a shortcut to launch the program. how can i do that ? if i double click on the eclipse file which is selected as the screenshot i am able to launch the program, someone help me to create a shortcut

I have been wanting to inspect the executable lines from these application shortcuts for several applications as I am having trouble opening each, or would like to know what settings they use by default to start the program. Any way, I would like to know how to do this. It is a common flow for me to see how the program was set-up and inspect where it is failing at each step in the process. I do this in Windows a lot and end up right-clicking the shortcut in the Start Menu or Taskbar, with or without modifier keys being held down at the same time so that I can get the correct context menu items to show up, and select "Properties". I would like the equivalent in Linux-based OS distributions, for at least Ubuntu, Mint, and elementaryOS. For more information: I am still learning how things are usually for these types of operating systems, but through some non-trivial amount of effort, have found that the information I am looking for is usually stored as *.desktop files, and they can be found under at least these 3 directory paths: * /usr/local/share/ * /usr/share/applications/ * ~/.local/share/applications/ For example, I want to create a shortcut to the "Remote Desktop Viewer" application that comes with elementaryOS, so that it opens a connection to a certain host automatically, without having me to click buttons and enter in connection information into the dialog. I would like to avoid having to do guesswork for internet searching for the matching command line executable. > **Edit:** Found out the application executable file's name was "Vinagre"; who would have thought of that.. This is the trouble I would like to avoid in the future :)

For example, I want to know what command invokes when I hit Fn + F12 to increase brightness. Can I get this or any other command when I trigger some shortcut (what's happening behind the scenes) somehow? Distro: Debian 10 (stable) XFCE

It is possible for the global shortcuts in the dedicated GUI. Is it possible for the custom shortcuts too? A similar option as above is not present in the KDE4 GUI for custom shortcuts. But I imagine there must be some file to back-up.

In Gnome 3 you can enter dconf-editor and navigate through lots of settings. Amongst others you can navigate to /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/ to find that Alt+Tab brings up the application switcher. You can change the keybinding for the application switcher or even add new ones in addition to the ones already present. However, once the application switcher is open, and while you're still holding down Alt, you can use the arrows to navigate within it. I'd like to add custom keymappings hjkl in addition to the arrows, but I cannot find the keymappings for this any place in the dconf-editor (yes, I actually looked through the whole thing and didn't find it). Does anyone know where I can find these settings? Thanks.

There is a feature in X11 that temporarily transforms your mouse pointer into a *"kill X11 application"* icon (I don't even know what to call it) and allows you to forcibly terminate a process that owns an X11 window. On occasion I've activated this feature accidentally and want to be able to do this consistently. What is the keyboard, mouse shortcut, or other means of activating this feature? How does it work? is it a legacy feature and/or only works under some environments?