Cannot start applications from launcher

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Suddenly from my some point, i cannot launch some of my apps from the launcher after upgrading to kde 6.3.

I could start the app directly from commandline and its fine. Any solutions to this?

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hi, welcome.

if you could go the settings, info page and copy the details to paste them here it would help to identify potential issues.

in the meantime, if you go to the app launcher and right click to edit applications you can see what command line options are being used by the items in the launcher.

if you execute those command line options in a terminal, does it work as expected?

you could also try running kbuildsycoca6 to see if it finds any issues with the menu.

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yeah, sorry for my late reply

i looked at my journalctl and it shows this wield message

 00:07:29 TWorkstation (resolve)[790668]: app-com.blackmagicdesign.resolve@ba8944eed47b4110884c70ec1d2c7e80.service: Changing to the requested working directory failed: No such file or directory
00:07:29 TWorkstation (resolve)[790668]: app-com.blackmagicdesign.resolve@ba8944eed47b4110884c70ec1d2c7e80.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /opt/resolve/bin/resolve: No such file or directory

The path and program exists without any doubt but why does it show that it’s missing.

Here’s my desktop entry for Davinci.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=DaVinci Resolve
GenericName=DaVinci Resolve
Comment=Revolutionary new tools for editing, visual effects, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application!
Exec=/opt/resolve/bin/resolve
Path=/opt/resolve
Terminal=false
MimeType=application/x-resolveproj;
Icon=/opt/resolve/graphics/DV_Resolve.png
StartupNotify=true
Name[en_US]=DaVinci Resolve

I’m running with Fedora 42 with KDE desktop BTW.

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It turns out i somehow duplicate a wrong desktop entry in my own ~/.share and it got loaded into the kde launcher. I deleted it and it works fine. No problems now Thanks~

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