Editing firefox.desktop
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Mon Mar 22 21:35:10 MST 2021
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)
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 at lists.phxlinux.org
> <mailto:plug-discuss at 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 at lists.phxlinux.org
> <mailto:plug-discuss at 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 at lists.phxlinux.org
>> <mailto:plug-discuss at 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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