Re: Editing firefox.desktop

>     That's what we are talking about.  You can put your own
>     firefox.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ and it will
>     supersede the package installed version of the file. I've found
>     just about everything in linux has a similar directory hierarchy
>     so you have control over a complete system and/or individual
>     program by putting alternative versions of config files in their
>     proper places.

>     According to the spec
>     (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index.html
>     <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index.html>)
>     the order that the .desktop files are searched for is in
>     $XDG_DATA_DIRS and the first one found is used.

>     Brian Cluff

>     On 3/22/21 6:40 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>     You know, I fscking hate this between distros, but for arch on
>>     mine, it's /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop, and every
>>     time I update it resets to defaults I hate.  I keep a copy of
>>     firefox.desktop as I need a menu to create a "choose profile"
>>     menu for firefox when I need many profiles for different
>>     customers, all with their own needs like different google and
>>     microsith profiles for orfice365.  Make sure you're hitting the
>>     right file for the distro as different from deb/ubuntu/mint.

>>     I'd say copy a working entry outside where you find the *.desktop
>>     files, and just replace what works in a remote location to
>>     upgrade when your dist.  Firefox is the only thing to overwrite
>>     and piss me off every time that I know to copy this when I
>>     update.  I normally just right click and do "Choose profile" for
>>     firefox for the plethora of profiles, adding that option to my
>>     firefox.desktop file, but apparently I'm the only person to do
>>     this, so shenanigans needed.  Same as yours I presume.  Start
>>     with a working one at least.

>>     I need to play with this some, as I'd love to relaunch my 6-7
>>     firefox profiles automatically, and not screw with my options to
>>     launch manually.  I'm sure there are easier ways to do this
>>     normally, but I'm lazy to do so.  /me shrugs

>>     -mb

>>     On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:31 AM Steve B via PLUG-discuss
>>     <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
>>     <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> 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
>>         <mailto: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
>>>             <mailto: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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