I looked again and made more progress. Edited sandfox.desktop to read: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Firefox (Sandboxed) Exec=/bin/sh "/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox" Icon=/home/steve/Pictures/firejailed-firefox.png 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. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:10 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > 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@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@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 >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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