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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0007123 | Kali Linux | General Bug | public | 2021-03-30 03:09 | 2021-12-14 22:37 |
Reporter | Erika carpenter | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | suspended | ||
Product Version | 2021.1 | ||||
Summary | 0007123: application.desktop files no longer function | ||||
Description | Evidently the Kali 2020.1 update had broken application.desktop functionality. When marked as executable the designated Icon does not appear. Through extensive fiddling the Icon and launch functionality appeared a few times. Click on the application.desktop | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Occurred with update. | ||||
Additional Information | The exactly identical application.desktop files functioned under Kali 2020.4 and continue to function in Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS. | ||||
I have my own slack and alacritty desktop files (in my ~/.local/share/applications ) and they show up in the menus and I'm able to launch the applications just fine. If I run "xdg-open ~/.local/share/applications/slack.desktop it opens it in a text editor because, well it's considered a text file. This is also changed in newer Ubuntu. You could try something like "gio set application.desktop metadata::trusted true" - this may allow you to launch them again. (I do not know if this is gnome specific, or if it also works in xfce, just what i found when i searched for it being broken. |
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This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2021-03-30 03:09 | Erika carpenter | New Issue | |
2021-03-30 03:09 | Erika carpenter | Issue generated from: 0007119 | |
2021-12-14 22:37 | g0tmi1k | Status | new => closed |
2021-12-14 22:37 | g0tmi1k | Resolution | open => suspended |
2021-12-14 22:37 | g0tmi1k | Note Added: 0015519 |