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

Tue Mar 29 18:51:00 EDT 2022

Jeffery,

I have the Gnucash flatpak "user" version installed. The gnucash flatpak
wiki desktop shortcut (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak) works for me
on Ubuntu 21.10 after updating my file location (see below)  The one step
not mentioned is to right click the desktop shortcut and select "Allow
launching" - this updates the desktop shortcut icon and if you don't do
this it just opens in text editor.

Cheers David H.

Desktop IconAssuming you want to create a desktop icon to open your second
file test-2.gnucash from your Documents folder:

[Desktop Entry]Type=ApplicationTerminal=falseExec=flatpak run
org.gnucash.GnuCash Documents/test-2.gnucashName=GnuCash (flatpak)
test-2Comment=Manage home and small business
accountsIcon=~/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 16:20, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have tried all of this.  As per your information I did in fact find an
> icon in:
>
>
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
>
>
> The desktop link gives me an error of "No suitable backend was found for
> /home/jeffrey/Desktop/Dad.desktop".  I am using the XML save,
> uncompressed.  I have a great distrust of compressed data files.
>
> My .desktop file is:
>
> [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
>
> And in case you are wondering 'Mac Drive' is an external USB drive that
> I bought on clearance for half price, and I am not using a Mac
> computer.  I just never changed the drive name because I had trouble
> with the initial install of the drive several years ago, pre-Ubuntu.
> Turned out that I had a bad USB cable.  It works flawlessly if I
> manually click on Dad.gnucash in the file manager.
>
> This does not appear anywhere on my server.
>
> /home/jeffrey/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico.
>
> Permissions are set to run as executable for the desktop icon. Icon does
> not show up, just the generic blank icon.  If I hit "Okay" I end up with
> a new, empty, set of books.  If I manually open Dad.gnucash from the
> link it opens the correct set of books but; wants to create scheduled
> transactions going back to 2019. And I also simply installed GNC as a
> Flatpak.  It also creates backups on the desktop.
>
> For the life of me I cannot figure out what is going on.  I can create
> desktop icons for everything except Flatpak programs.
>
> I have to have a gremlin in my server, because I cannot even build a
> working version of GNC from source (after uninstalling GNC).
>
> As of right now I only have one user on my server.
>
> --
> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
>
>
> On 3/26/22 6:55 AM, david whiting wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > If you installed gnucash for a single user, then the icon file will be
> > at the path I showed in the previous email (but you'll have to change
> > the login name to yours):
> >
> >
> /home/david/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
> >
> > If you installed gnucash as a system application for all users, then
> > you will find the icon file here:
> >
> >
> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
> >
> > For the exec line, you might want to put the full path to the gnucash
> file, e.g.
> >
> > Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash /home/jeff/Documents/test-2.gnucash
> >
> > So, with a *system* installation and assuming that your login is jeff,
> > then the desktop file might look like this:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Type=Application
> > Terminal=false
> > Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash /home/jeff/Documents/test-2.gnucash
> > Name=GnuCash 4.9 FLATPAK test-2
> > 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
> >
> > (Note that the lines may be wrapped, if so, you'll need to unwrap them)
> >
> > Remember to right-click on the file on the desktop and choose "Allow
> launching".
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 at 08:25, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I tried this but I cannot locate the actual GNC icon file.  I do have
> >> one where I attempted, unsuccessfully, to build GNC 4.9 from source.
> >>
> >> I changed the path to the icon in the build directory.  And gave the
> >> exec the path to one of my .gnucash files but the desktop link still
> >> refuses to work.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/25/22 3:45 AM, david whiting wrote:
> >>> Hi Jeff,
> >>>
> >>> The following works for me, with gnucash installed for a user:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Create a desktop file (using a text editor) with the entry shown
> below
> >>> 2. On the Exec line, change Documents/test-2.gnucash to the path to
> >>> your gnucash file
> >>> 3. On the Name line, change this to whatever you want to call it, i.e.
> >>> what you want to see on the desktop
> >>> 4. Change the path for the icon to the correct location (perhaps
> >>> changing /home/david to /home/jeff)
> >>> 5. Save the file as whatever-you-want-to-call-it.desktop
> >>> 6. Go to your desktop
> >>> 7. Right-click on the file on the desktop and select "Allow launching"
> >>> (this step is important)
> >>> 8. Repeat this process for other files, changing the Exec line and
> >>> Name lines accordingly
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [Desktop Entry]
> >>> Type=Application
> >>> Terminal=false
> >>> Exec=flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash Documents/test-2.gnucash
> >>> Name=GnuCash 4.9 FLATPAK test-2
> >>> Comment=Manage home and small business accounts
> >>>
> Icon=/home/david/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/active/files/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash-icon.ico
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:38, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I have never had a problem creating desktop icons for multiple books
> for
> >>>> GNC on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS prior to installing the FlatPak version for
> GNC 4.9.
> >>>>
> >>>> Everything I have tried for the desktop icon has failed miserably on
> the
> >>>> Flatpak version of GNC 4.9.  Is there someone who can guide me on
> >>>> creating the desktop icons for this version on Ubuntu version 20.04
> >>>> LTS.  I have multiple sets of books to maintain for family members.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
> >>>>
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> --
> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
>
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