Your 9.4 file looks fine. I'm guessing your desktop manager does not like the name with the extra dot.
What Desktop manager are you running? Try renaming the Desktop/jqt9.4.desktop to replace the . with dot. On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 1:23 PM J. Patrick Harrington <j...@umd.edu> wrote: > Yes, I ran the last steps. > > Looking at my desktop listing, I find various files such as > jqt903.desktop and jqt9.4.desktop (I have run the shortcut_pacman_). > > One difference is that the 903 file is > > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > Terminal=false > Name=jqt903 > Exec="/home/jph/j903/bin/jqt" > Path=/home/jph > Icon=/home/jph/j903/bin/icons/jgreen.png > > while the 9.4 file is > > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > Terminal=false > Name=jqt9.4 > Exec="/home/jph/j9.4/bin/jqt" > Path=/home/jph > Icon=/home/jph/j9.4/bin/icons/jgreen.png > > But when I view the 9.4 file the ".4" of /9.4/ is greyed out. Maybe a > problem with the . in the file name? > > Patrick > > On 4/12/23 12:59 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > I assume you did the last steps to finish the install as that is where > the > > icons are created. > > > > You could try manually creating the launch icons. Might not work, but > could > > give hints to the problem. > > > > load'pacman' > > shortcut_jpacman_'jc' NB. 'jhs' and 'jqt' > > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:48 PM J. Patrick Harrington <j...@umd.edu> > wrote: > > > >> I have just reinstalled j9.4 on my Dell XPS13 laptop running linux - > >> Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. > >> > >> The install seemed normal. I can start and run J with a "j9.4/bin/jqt &" > >> command. But the J icons never appeared on the desktop as they have in > >> the past. Any pointers on what went wrong and how to fix it? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Patrick > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
