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

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        Dave
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        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

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          ej-fairphone-4
          last edited by ej-fairphone-4

          I don't know why you couldn't create a config file to run your console application, 😔.

          I have done this:

          • (/bin/bash in terminal, libertine container)
          fakeroot apt update
fakeroot apt install sway
          • use OpenStore tedit text editor app to write the desktop entry,
          Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=libertine-launch -i [container name] sway
Name=Sway app window manager, i3 compatible WM
X-Lomiri-Touch=true
X-Lomiri-Default-Department-ID=accessories
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
X-Ubuntu-Default-Department-ID=accessories
          • then
          cp -v ~/.local/share/tedit.danfro/libertine-application-container-sway.desktop.txt ~/.local/share/applications/libertine-application-container-sway.desktop
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