I'm lazy and use a lot of appimages, so I use Appimagelauncher. https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher Use this to launch the appimage the first time then it gets moved to a common folder (~/Applications by default) and is added to the launcher. I have been happy with it for the year or so that I have been using it.
Jason On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:23 PM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@protonmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
