Creating a .desktop file to run console applications inside the terminal from the dock.

[Dave]

Hi,

With the 16.04 ubports version I used to be able to put a console application into the launcher menu by creating a .desktop file in /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/ with this kind of Exec= hack:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=env SHELL=/home/phablet/decrypt-home-run.sh aa-exec-click -p com.ubuntu.terminal_terminal_1.0.1 -- terminal %u
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/status/32/locked.svg
Name=Decrypt
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
X-Ubuntu-Default-Department-ID=accessories
Path=/usr/share/click/preinstalled/.click/users/@all/com.ubuntu.terminal

I use this on my phones to run a very experimental/hacky/dangerous script that decrypts my /home/phablet directory using cryptsetup/luks (ubports does not appear to support this in a proper and stable way).

However this .desktop file hack ceased to work on my Volla 22 with ubports 20.04. The .desktop files nowadays seem to reference a secondary .desktop file in the click package directory

X-Lomiri-Source-Desktop=/usr/share/click/preinstalled/.click/users/@all/terminal.ubports/lomiri-terminal-app.desktop

And it appears that just copying the terminal app's .desktop file in .local/share/applications is insufficient to create a customized launcher for the terminal.

Any ideas of how to proceed here? I really have problems understanding how the ubports UI works on the technical side. Are there maybe other options to have a simple scripted qml UI-application in /home/phablet that can be executed via Exec=qmlscene (i.e. something that can be done without having to install any toolchain)?

But then maybe a qml-only application won't have access to running shell commands?

cheers,

Dave