Hit there, if i make a app starter on my desktop and try to activate the program it opens Dooble web-browser. I looked at the file associations for .desktop but no Dooble there.
Dooble does do a download. file:///home/nico/Betterbird.desktop and place a new icon on my desktop with a ! on the first icon. Strange behavior.
How can i solve this problem,
Thx Nico
How specifically are you doing this?
what is the output of kinfo
you can look at other examples of .desktop files to perhaps understand better how they work by looking in
~/.local/share/applications/
/usr/share/applications/
i would normally use the application launcher/menu Edit application… menu for making new .desktop files in the first folder above and just drag a copy to my desktop or panel if i wanted quicker access to it.
kinfo
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
If i make one with right click and then New. If a installing program ask me if i want a desktop icon. And if I open my menu and right click an program and do Add to desktop.
In all cases it react the same.
does this happen for any program, or just the one you installed as mentioned above?
because for me it creates a link to the .desktop file with all the same properties under the application tab as you would find in the menu editor.
when i double click on it, the application is launched as tho i’d picked it from the app menu.
what is the output of kbuildsycoca6
kbuildsycoca6 running ....
And it happen for any program.
“because for me it creates a link to the .desktop file with all the same properties under the application tab as you would find in the menu editor.” it does for me to!
so the only issue is that when you double click on it, nothing happens?
not for any of these links?
if you right click on the desktop and choose “configure desktop…”
what does it say for Layout?
Is not true, look at my first post, it opens Dooble webbrowser.
This is one of the icons:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=/home/nico/opt/betterbird/betterbird
Icon=/home/nico/opt/betterbird/chrome/icons/default/default256.png
Name=Betterbird
NoDisplay=false
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
I have been looking in all settings from Dooble but couldn’t find anything.
I agree, it must be something in my own configuration. But what?
Pit
what is the output of which dooble
what is the output of which betterbird
which dooble
/usr/bin/dooble
which betterbird give back nothing.
/home/nico/opt/betterbird is not in the path.
Is this in your repositories? If not and you downloaded the tar from their site, place it in /opt
so for some reason when the .desktop file tries to execute /home/nico/opt/betterbird/betterbird it can’t find it, and so instead executes /usr/bin/dooble for some reason.
that is very weird.
You got it!
That’s why i wrote this post.
Pit
And now, i added betterbird to my path so which gave back:
which betterbird
/home/nico/opt/betterbird/betterbird
But the outcome is the same. Dooble starts a download of the .desktop file and place a new .desktop file on my desktop and give the old one an !
Pit
Started also a Dooble github issue.
h ttps://github.com/textbrowser/dooble/issues/274
Not much people use this.
Pit
