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 > > 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 >> > > 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss