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 just stops working. So, **typing the designated name in the start menu brings up the app and when I press Enter the icon of the app shows up on the bar with a loading animation on top and then... nothing happens**. Now, I don't think this happens straight away. I believe I get this after a while, I guess after an update or something. That said, the updates wouldn't necessarily affect any of those apps. Some of them are AppImages installed in opt, so it's not that the AppImage breaks or anything. Besides, ***if I run a terminal window and copy-paste the command** as specified in the KDE Menu Editor (pointing to the executable in /opt/ for example) for any of these apps, they run normally, as expected.* Some of these apps include: Fish (which I often just invoke from the default terminal), Blender (installed as an AppImage). I can live with this minor inconvenience, but an inconvenience it still remains. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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. However, now I can't get them to be launchable. They're basically just designed to launch Chrome with a few specific settings. For example:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Network;Chat;
Comment[en_US]=A shortcut for Disney+
Comment=A shortcut for Disney+
Exec=/home/ross/scripts/disneyplus.sh
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=/home/ross/Pictures/icons/disney-plus-logo.png
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Disney+
Name=Disney+
NoDisplay=false
Path=/home/ross/scripts/
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

which points to a script with the contents:

google-chrome --disable-extensions -url http://disneyplus.com  -start-fullscreen &

The script works fine from the command line. The .desktop file is set to be executable, but the Allow Launching option doesn't appear on the right click menu. [context menu for the .desktop file](https://i.sstatic.net/X8UxCgcg.png)

$ desktop-file-validate disneyplus.desktop

reports no errors. Most of what I've found online so far suggests using gio to set the trusted flag from CLI, but that isn't working:

$ gio set disneyplus.desktop metadata::trusted true
gio: Setting attribute metadata::trusted not supported

I don't know what else I can try. Does anyone have any ideas?

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 much to group other programs together too, but could not find a way nor a tutorial to do so. How to group applications on the grid, considering this is GNOME 3.32.2?

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 restarting multiple times it still does not show up in the list of applications. How do I get it to show up there? I used desktop-file-validate on the desktop file and it didn't tell me about any problems. Here are the contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Exec=/home/esok/Applications/firefox/firefox-bin %u
Name=Firefox
Icon=/home/esok/Applications/firefox/icons/Firefox_logo_2019.svg.png

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!

### 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 not a bash shell.** Why does this matter? I really enjoy some of the bash's features, such as: - **GNU Readline shortcuts:** Navigating or edit text with Ctrl+A (beginning of line), Ctrl+E (end), Ctrl+K (kill text), Ctrl+Y (yank), Meta+Y (yank history), and more. - **Command history:** Using ~/.bash_history for searching with Ctrl+R/Ctrl+S, or navigating commands with Ctrl+P/Ctrl+N. - **Tab completion:** With tools like bash-completion and bash-complete-alias, I have powerful auto-completion for paths, command names, and arguments. - **Aliases:** Some programs are easier and faster to launch via my custom aliases. --- ### My Goal I want to use a terminal emulator as a simple application launcher. Here’s how it should work: 1. Press a shortcut key to launch the terminal (e.g., kitty). 2. Type a command (e.g., firefox). 3. Press ``. The terminal should: - Launch the command. - Immediately close itself. - Leave the launched application running. For example, typing firefox should behave like executing firefox & disown & exit or nohup firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 & exit. Typing & disown & exit after the command achieves the desired effect, but, of course, I don't want to manually add & disown & exit every time. Note: this is **not window swallowing**. I don’t want the terminal window to linger after the application closes; I only need it for input. --- ### What I’ve Tried 1. **Using read:** Launching kitty with this command:

kitty -e bash -i -c 'read -e -p "Command: " cmd; eval "$cmd"'

This approach fails because typing via read bypasses some of the shell features I want, like tab completion and command history. 2. **Automating with a secondary shortcut:** Typing the command and using another shortcut (e.g., Super+) to append and execute & disown & exit with a tool like wtype. This is very workaroundish, but I'd settle for it, if it worked. Unfortunately, it does not: pressing a modifier key like Super causes unwanted behavior: every character in the string (& disown & exit) is sent with the modifier, triggering shortcuts instead of being interpreted as text. --- ### Conclusion How can I achieve this? I want a solution that lets me quickly launch applications while leveraging all the features of an interactive bash shell.

I have a very strange error, it turns out that my Wi-Fi interface is not being managed by the Wi-Fi icon of my launcher in Deepin 15.5. It does not show me other Wi-Fi networks nearby, however the command iwlist wlp3s0 scan shows me several wifi, so the interface is up. It responds well to the use of ifconfig wlp3s0 up or down, however if I give it down it does not reflect it in the launcher of the wifi. It's as if my launcher was managing another interface through the network manager. It is uncomfortable because I have to connect to wpa_supplicant, it is clear that the device works. When I turn it off by the launcher in ifconfig -a it's still up. service networkin status return active(exited). Please help.

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 -show-icons I use urxvt as my default terminal, and it's the one that's specified in my config.rasi file for rofi to use. The problem I have is when I launch rofi, and try to do something like htop SHIFT RET to run htop in a terminal window. When I'm done with htop, I hit Q and the process ends, but I'm left with a blank terminal window. Hitting Q again doesn't kill it, nor does Ctrl-C. I have to kill the window via my i3 keybinding $mod+Shift+Q. It's a similar situation with a command like neofetch, or ls -l, except now the first Q doesn't kill the process as it has already completed – the terminal window is not blank but contains the output of those commands. My run-shell-command is "{terminal} -hold -e {cmd}". I don't get this behavior when running these commands via dmenu. For instance, htop is in the dmenu-recent/terminal file, and hitting Q kills the process and the terminal window at the same time. This is the behavior I would like to replicate with rofi – is this possible?

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 browser with some arguments but I could not find any documentation for this. Thank you in advance for your help.

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 kept crashing and didn't work, so I found an open source alternative that works fabulously. Now, I wanted to delete the official client. The official instructions for removing it didn't include instructions for Red Hat / Fedora, so I tried to manually find all the files I downloaded or the installer created and delete them. This mostly worked. The app no longer shows up in Application Launcher on KDE Plasma, and the command to start the CLI version isn't recognized. But every time I log in, the first thing I see is a pop up to use the GUI for the official GlobalProtect client. It looks slightly different from the open source one, so I know it's the one I tried to delete. It also creates a folder .GlobalProtect in my Home directory. I tried deleting the .GlobalProtect folder, but it reappeared when I rebooted. How can I get rid of this? I can live with the hidden file in my Home directory, but I'd really like to not see the app GUI every time I reboot. What might be triggering the launch? I couldn't find anything in my .bashrc file, which is the only place I know to look for things that happen on login. (Please let me know if there's a better set of tags to use, I'm unsure.) **Solution** I got the idea from @waltinator to search for other places where autostart things might be stored. There is another, /etc/xdg/autostart/. In it, I found a file called something like PanGPUI.desktop. When I opened that file, it pointed to another directory in /opt, which contained all sorts of stuff related to running the GlobalProtect client. Deleting both the file in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and the directory in /opt, which I did through the terminal since they required sudo privileges, solved my problem.

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 
Telegram/
Telegram/Updater
Telegram/Telegram
root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# mv Telegram /opt/
root@debian:/home/lm/Downloads/telegram# cd /opt/Telegram/
root@debian:/opt/Telegram# dir
Telegram  Updater
root@debian:/opt/Telegram# ./Telegram 
bash: ./Telegram: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

after unpacking i had move the files to /opt folder and avoid it not in PATH variable, i had launch it directly from a folder. But it gives me the error message. Same if just call binary with PATH prompt from other directory

root@debian:/# /opt/Telegram/Telegram
bash: /opt/Telegram/Telegram: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

and how can i fix it? (or where is i make improperly step?)

session
$> uname -r
6.1.0-9-686-pae
$> file Telegram
Telegram: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=88e4d9c055d23489bcc05f598f65f60d6fba74fe, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped

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 already enabled auto-mount on system startup for the 'other_jazz' partition. How do I make the find command in the Pop OS launcher to search through data inside this partition?

I've made a desktop launcher and I want to direct the stderr to a file, but the redirection file isn't even create: /home/pl/my_thing.sh 2> /home/pl/stderr.txt That's what I've got in my launcher, but when I run it, the command executes normally, but acts as though it ignores everything from 2 onward. If I copy and paste that line into the command-line, it works. So why not in my launcher?

Hi everybody I want to start to say thank you for your time! I have a problem and don't really know what to do to solve the problem. When i download something and I click on the arrow in Firefox to see my downloads and then click on the folder next to the application name it should open the folder where it is saved? (I think something like moz/.tmp) anyway when I click on the folder it opens VSCode. what did i do wrong? even after "extraction completed successfully" and i click Show the Files it opens VSCode Running Linux Lite 4.8 x86_64

I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 (Xfce 4.12) and have a launcher that seemingly can't be removed (any way I can think of; highlighted in the image below): After updating a VPN client, there are two entries. One is correct and working (with proper icon, working directory and command) while the other points to a non-existent directory (and so fails to launch). MenuLibre editor shows only one launcher entry (the working one), as do ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu and /usr/share/applications (per this question ). Editing either launcher icon via context-menu (right-click) doesn't give the option to hide it, either. Are there other ways to get rid of this launcher entry?

This is for the program git-cola , although I think the question is more general. It is also using LM Cinnamon 18. The environment variable I want to set is SCALE_GIT_COLA=2 so that the program looks good with a HiDPI display. If I add export SCALE_GIT_COLA=2 to my .profile, then open a terminal and run git-cola, I get the desired effect. However, if I use a launcher (I am using Albert , but again I think this is more general) to run git-cola, then it looks as if SCALE_GIT_COLA=2 has not been set. How can I get launchers run through the Cinnamon desktop to respect environment variables set through .profile? Or, where else can I add these environment variables so that I get this behavior?

[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 -

If I create an application launcher with the following command: mate-terminal -e /usr/local/bin/nnn a terminal opens and runs nnn. However, nnn doesn't have a configuration file and settings such as bookmarks are read from environment variables written in ~/.bashrc. When the above launcher command is executed, nnn is not reading its variables from .bashrc, so no bookmarks. If I open a terminal and then type 'nnn' everything runs normally.

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 start ?. It happens that when I installed gnome, those apps are starting inside of `gnome-teminal`, how can change that default terminal?

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' | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/unbind and the .desktop entry is [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Samsung Off Comment= Exec=echo '2-2:1.0' | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/unbind Icon= Path= Terminal=true StartupNotify=false