[00:16] good morning === maccraft is now known as macc24 [01:14] Night here [01:14] XD === markt is now known as apehegemon147 [08:36] hi everyone! hope you can help: trying to add shortcut to application menu. creating desktop entry in /usr/share/applications/ does create icon, but clicking on it wont start it. is there something else that has to be done in 20.04 please? thanks in advace [08:40] user14651: That is the correct process. The `exec` line of the desktop file will need to point to the full path for the application. [08:44] yeah. i used to do this in lxde and always worked, but i have no luck doing the same in lxqt. full path is correct; but also did try to create a command in /usr/bin and pointed "EXEC" line to this command; this didnt help; starting same desktop entry from pacman-qt works; but does not work from application menu nor quick launch widget :( [08:46] user14651: I have done it in LXQt before too. Can you paste your desktop file? [08:52] https://pastebin.com/NL1TYBkP [08:54] i know exec command is bit complex, but like i have said earlier, i did also try to move this command in executable file in /usr/bin . this file run fine from terminal, so i have pointed EXEC line to this executable; still no luck [08:56] user14651: given the length of the command you may want to make a script and then call the script from the desktop file. [08:56] see above; did that; [08:58] kc2bez: i really do appreciate you trying to help me here :) [08:59] Perhaps try calling the actual desktop file from the terminal so you can see any errors? [09:03] how to do that? by default desktop entry is not executable; i can set to be executable, but then what program to use to run desktop entry from terminal please? [09:04] By the way, the password is not very secret, if you export it as env variable and write it into a file, which is readable by everyone [09:13] lubot: file is not readable by everyone; and will be moved to .local/share/applications/ once i figure this out. also tor-ctrl port accepts only connections from localhost; i am only user on this desktop and home folder is encrypted; so it is still not the best practise, i feel good enough about it. [09:18] the reason i export it to ENV VAR is so I can run torbrowser without starting another instance of tor, if i already have tor running as a service in background; there used to be a better way to do this in past, but ATM using ENV VAR is the only way I know how to achieve what i need. === lubuntu is now known as Guest30216 [09:20] ciao [09:20] nessuno? [09:30] The home folder is not encrypted when you are using it. A little exploit is enough to check your env variables and any programm running as your user can read the file. … Being the only user is just an illusion, there are a lot of other technical users. … I am just saying that your solution is very fragile. [09:32] i've been trying to access gmail from trojita but its not very straightforward. gmail is blocking the access [09:32] is there any reasons why choosing this client instead of thunderbird? [09:32] kc2bez: running desktop entry with gtk-launch starts the application fine [09:35] santimir[m]: trojita should be fast and resource efficient; i still prefer sylpheed because trojita does not support search / filtering [09:36] yes but you have to switch off security settings in gmail for trojita to work [09:36] am I wrong? [09:36] user14651: I am unsure why that isn't launching for you from the menu. [09:37] santimir[m]: trojita is a qt application and thunderbird is a GTK application is one reason [09:38] thunderbird has the same security issues I believe. I have not tested that though. [09:38] alright...i'm installing thunderbird to try that out [09:38] kc2bez: nevermind; for now i will place desktop entry to desktop and launch from there while i try to figure it out. Thank you for all your help :) [09:39] Sorry I wasn't able to help there user14651 [09:40] kc2bez: but its good to know i am not doing it incorrectly; i am sure i will find another way somehow [09:40] thunderbird took 1 minute to run [09:41] didn't need any security changes, AFAI can tell [09:47] lubot: do you know a way of staring torbrowser without starting tor relay without exporting password to ENV VAR? i do appreciate you telling me about potential weakness, so i am not trying to argue with your statement, because I know you are right. however if i had exploit running on my system, disclosing tor ctrl passwd would not be my biggest worry. [10:28] kc2bez: success; i though you might be curious how i did it: [10:28] I had move command into script AND cd into folder where the script is located; absolute path is not working; [10:28] not sure its the best approach, but changed EXEC line to EXEC=sh -c "cd &&