The XDG launchers used in most Desktop environments don't have the ability to use shell expansion ($ variables or ~). So you need to specify the full path. Most GUI tools to create a launcher will have a file selecter that you can use, and you might notice that after selecting your file it inputs the full path.
You *might* be able to set a "working directory" in the launcher, and then just specify the name of the file you want to execute. There might be variables available per the XDG specification, but I can't remember what they are. I'm pretty sure there is a syntax to specify the user. -Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 at 12:17 PM, Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 1/4/23 12:01, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Try $HOME/.... Instead of ~/.... > > > Thanks, but similar error message: > > Failed to execute command "$HOME/appimage/OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage". > Failed to execute child process > "$HOME/appimage/OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage" (No such file or directory) > > > Just to make sure I'm not mistyping: > > rsteff@ENU-1:~/appimage$ ls > OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage > > Text in the Launcher: > OpenShot-v3.0.0-x86_64.AppImage > > (I did mistype the error message in my first post. The Launcher has the > filename correct.) > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
