Hi there! Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great holiday.
I am trying to make a desktop shortcut for my Grajay app.
It's a standalone app that I just unzipped to a folder in my Home directory.
/home/tes/Grajay
The folder is Grajay. Inside the folder is an executable file simply called Grayjay, with no extension. When I click this file, it launches Grayjay without issue.
You could try it with packing the .desktop File to /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/applications/ first. Then go to the executable File in the folder, make a right-click and look if You can find the Option to create a Link. Use that and pack the Link on the Desktop.
The executable is probably trying to load some resource from the same directory where it's located, but being invoked using a desktop file is likely failing because it's using the wrong path.
Just a tip: I personally don't like having too many files in my home directory, as that's the entry point to my personal files and I like to keep things nice and tidy.
To keep things organized I would recommend moving the Grayjay directory over to /home/tes/.local/bin. That's the directory defined by the Freedesktop specification for user-specific executable files, which is ideal for software downloaded like this, or compiled manually.
# Create the directory in case it doesn't already exists
mkdir -p /home/tes/.local/bin/
# Move the entire folder from its current location to the new one.
mv /home/tes/Grayjay/ /home/tes/.local/bin/
The .desktop file itself can be placed in /home/tes/.local/share/applications. Remember that you will need to update it to point to the new location of the executable files.
