Desktop shortcuts disabled after upgrade to 20.04.3 now open in text editor
Bug #1940793 reported by
Charles Meo
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have recently upgraded from 18.04 LTS and all my desktop shortcuts are disabled and open in text editor, they do not run the applications.
There does not seem to be any clear, documented procedure for fixing this, and I wonder why it has happened in the first place.
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Additional information.
lsb_release -a:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
screenfetch -n:
cmeo@rodan
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.4.0-81-generic
Uptime: 28m
Packages: 2814
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Resolution: 1920x2160
DE: Unity 7.5.0
WM: Compiz
WM Theme: Ambiance
GTK Theme: Ambiance [GTK2/3]
Icon Theme: ubuntu-mono-dark
Font: Ubuntu 11
Disk: 136G / 455G (32%)
CPU: Intel Core i7-6500U @ 4x 3.1GHz [51.0°C]
GPU: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
RAM: 3545MiB / 15480MiB
Digging into this further, I found that there are .desktop files that are working and some that are not.
The .desktop files which don't work were created by playonlinux. Here is an example: share/playonlin ux/playonlinux --run "WarInTheEast" %F cmeo/.PlayOnLin ux//icones/ full_size/ WarInTheEast FR]=WarInTheEas t WarInTheEast. exe File-Install- Version= 0.24
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=WarInTheEast
Comment=PlayOnLinux
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/
Icon=/home/
Name[fr_
StartupWMClass=
Categories=
X-Desktop-
And here is one that does work: home/cmeo/ arduino- 1.8.12/ arduino" arduinoide Development; IDE;Electronics ; text/x- arduino; electronics; avr;microcontro ller; processing- app-Base
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Arduino IDE
GenericName=Arduino IDE
Comment=Open-source electronics prototyping platform
Exec="/
Icon=arduino-
Terminal=false
Categories=
MimeType=
Keywords=embedded electronics;
StartupWMClass=