<div dir="ltr">I looked again and made more progress. Edited sandfox.desktop to read:<div><br></div><div>#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open<br>[Desktop Entry]<br>Type=Application<br>Name=Firefox (Sandboxed)<br>Exec=/bin/sh "/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"<br>Icon=/home/steve/Pictures/firejailed-firefox.png<br></div><div><br></div><div>I get a shell of an icon in the menu with the text below it. Still can't start the browser, but more than I had yesterday.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:10 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>
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"<br>
<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
<div>On 3/22/21 11:30 AM, Steve B via
PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<div>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?<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 20, 2021,
10:30 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div> 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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
#!/usr/bin/kioclient5 exec<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Alternatives to starting it from the command line:<br>
Create a file called sandfox in /usr/local/bin/ and put
the following into it.<br>
#!/bin/bash<br>
/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox $@<br>
<br>
Then set it to be executable and then you can execute
sandfox from anywhere.<br>
<br>
You could also set and alias with:<br>
alias sandfox="/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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:<br>
echo alias sandfox='"/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor
firefox"' >>~/.bashrc<br>
<br>
I can't remember what your original goals were, so I
hope the above isn't completely shooting the dark.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
<div>On 3/19/21 10:25 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss
wrote:<br>
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<div>I took Brian's recommendation and created a
file in ~/.local/share/applications called
sandfox.desktop. Contents of that file are:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>[Desktop Entry]<br>
Encoding=UTF-8<br>
Type=Application<br>
Icon=/home/steve/Pictures/firejailed_firefox128.png<br>
Exec=/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox<br>
Name=Sandboxed Web Browser<br>
Terminal=false<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I have it set to executable but when i try to
run it "./sandfox.desktop" I get the error:</div>
<div>./sandfox.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command
not found<br>
./sandfox.desktop: line 5: --apparmor: command not
found<br>
./sandfox.desktop: line 6: Web: command not found<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Is my file misconfigured or what do I not have
correct?</div>
<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 25,
2020 at 5:47 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
<<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div> Under debian based distros, overriding an
overwrite of ANY installed file is easily
done.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Just do:<br>
dpkg-divert --add --rename
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop<br>
<br>
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<code></code>
/usr/local/share/applications/ to effect every
user on the system.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
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