[GNC] create desktop icons for GNC 4.9 Flatpak on Ubuntu - solved

Steve Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Mon Apr 4 12:12:46 EDT 2022


Jeff,

Per chance are you on a Unix/Linux derevitive?  I have seen Windows line
endings cause problems for different shells trying to process the script.
Changing to Unix style line endings fixed the problem.  To the text editor
I was using the files appeared to be the same.

--Steve

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 07:16 Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Geert, don't ask me how I did it because I do not know but the new icon
> now works.
>
> Just for kicks and grins I created a desktop file for LibreOffice Writer
> and it worked right the first time.  So then I edited my desktop icon
> for GNC and compared it to yours and couldn't see any differences except
> the path and data file name.  Renamed my file and copied yours into a
> text editor, changed the path and filename accordingly.  Saved it and
> right clicked the allow launching and it worked.
>
> Working version (copied and edited from your post):
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash /media/jeffrey/'Mac
> Drive'/Ledgers/Dad/Dad.gnucash
> Name=GnuCash 4.9 FLATPAK Dad
> Comment=Manage home and small business accounts
>
> Icon=/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
>
> ======
> Non-working version:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash /media/jeffrey/**'Mac
> Drive'/Ledgers/Dad/Dad.gnucash
> Name=GnuCash 4.9 FLATPAK Dad
> Comment=Manage home and small business accounts
> Icon=/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
>
>
>
>
> To the naked eye they look identical but one works and the other does
> not.  Both are right clicked to allow launching.  The only difference I
> can see, now that I copied and pasted into this e-mail, is that the text
> width is different. I don't know if that has something to do with it or
> not (hidden high bit character that doesn't show up in Text Editor
> perhaps?).
>
> I then created an icon for another set of books (which works) and
> checked the permissions for both.  They are not the same.  The copy of
> yours shows a check mark in the 'Allow executing file as program', the
> second one has a '-' .  My original had a check mark too.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
>
> On 4/2/22 11:28 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Type=Application
> > Terminal=false
> > Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash /home/janssege/testfile.gnucash
> > Name=GnuCash 4.9 FLATPAK Dad
> > Comment=Manage home and small business accounts
> > Icon=/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/
> > share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
>
>
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