Re: Editing firefox.desktop

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
>>
>>
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