Editing firefox.desktop

[Brian Cluff]

I don't know about GNOME which I assume your using being the default 
desktop environment for Pop OS, but in KDE, which I'm using, they just 
show up automatically.  I would think it would show up in the menu as 
"Sandboxed Web Browser"


Brian Cluff

On 3/22/21 11:30 AM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thank you. The original goal was to add it to the menu in Pop OS. I'll 
> look again, but don't recall seeing it after I created it in 
> ~/.local/share/applications. Do I need to use "--register-app" to add 
> it, or should it just show up?
>
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:30 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     A desktop file is standardized configuration file for Linux
>     desktops that describe how to represent a program in the menus
>     (complete with multiple language support), and how to launch it. 
>     So you can't just launch it directly because it doesn't mean
>     anything to the command line.  It should however be showing up in
>     your menus now and so you can put it in your favorites and easily
>     launch it that way.
>
>     That being cause, you can kinda turn it into an executable by
>     adding something like the following to the very top of the desktop
>     file:
>     #!/usr/bin/kioclient5 exec
>
>     That will tell the system to execute the desktop file with
>     kioclient... of course you need to be running KDE for that to work
>     correctly.  I'm not sure what the GNOME equivalent of that command is.
>
>     Personally I would just pretty alt+F2 or alt+space may work as
>     well and just start to type  "Sandboxed Web Browser" and you may
>     only have to type Sand or so before you can press enter and have
>     it launch.
>
>     Alternatives to starting it from the command line:
>     Create a file called sandfox in /usr/local/bin/ and put the
>     following into it.
>     #!/bin/bash
>     /usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox $@
>
>     Then set it to be executable and then you can execute sandfox from
>     anywhere.
>
>     You could also set and alias with:
>     alias sandfox="/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"
>
>     That will allow you to type sandfox and internally it will replace
>     that with "/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox".  That should
>     also work in most places equally well, but only for your username.
>     That's a one shot way of making that available.  If you want it to
>     be permanent you'll need to add that line to your .bashrc file with:
>     echo alias sandfox='"/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"'
>     >>~/.bashrc
>
>     I can't remember what your original goals were, so I hope the
>     above isn't completely shooting the dark.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>     On 3/19/21 10:25 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>     I took Brian's recommendation and created a file in
>>     ~/.local/share/applications called sandfox.desktop. Contents of
>>     that file are:
>>
>>     [Desktop Entry]
>>     Encoding=UTF-8
>>     Type=Application
>>     Icon=/home/steve/Pictures/firejailed_firefox128.png
>>     Exec=/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox
>>     Name=Sandboxed Web Browser
>>     Terminal=false
>>
>>     I have it set to executable but when i try to run it
>>     "./sandfox.desktop" I get the error:
>>     ./sandfox.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command not found
>>     ./sandfox.desktop: line 5: --apparmor: command not found
>>     ./sandfox.desktop: line 6: Web: command not found
>>
>>     Is my file misconfigured or what do I not have correct?
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
>>     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         Under debian based distros, overriding an overwrite of ANY
>>         installed file is easily done.
>>         There's a really cool tool called dpkg-divert that the system
>>         uses to take whatever files would normally be installed and
>>         steer them into a different place so that you can put your
>>         own version of the file in the same place without fear of it
>>         going away on the next update.
>>
>>         Just do:
>>         dpkg-divert --add --rename
>>         /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
>>
>>         In this case, that would be the overkill and less correct way
>>         of handing the problem.  A better way would be to put your
>>         own version of the firefox.desktop into certain directories
>>         and that cause it to override the system version of the
>>         config.  Put them in ~/.local/share/applications/ to change
>>         an individual user and|| /usr/local/share/applications/ to
>>         effect every user on the system.
>>
>>         Brian Cluff
>>
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