Re: Need help with shell script.

At Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:26:35 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 13/08/2026 04:23, c186282 wrote:
> > On 8/12/26 06:28, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> >> On 12/08/2026 04:42, pH wrote:
> >>> On 2026-08-11, Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Am 10.08.26 um 01:32 schrieb pH:
> >>>>> so I thought I'd make a clickable icon on the Desktop to make it 
> >>>>> easy for
> >>>>> her.
> >>>>
> >>>> What does that mean?
> >>>> Is it a .desktop file with the right content?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> A directory of Desktop (ls -a) shows no dot files besides . and ..
> >>>
> >>> Mint calls them a "launcher" and it appears as an icon on the Desktop 
> >>> if you
> >>> are graphical.
> >>>
> >>> pH
> >>
> >> And they exist deep inside ~/.config if you move them to a panel from 
> >> the desktop
> > 
> >    There are a number of ways these work, depending
> >    on distro and desktop.
> > 
> Yes, but we are talking about Mint MATE specifically

XFCE works the same way with panel launcher files -- it's
all part of the XDG standard, if I'm not mistaken.

For example:

_[/home/scott/.config/xfce4/panel/launcher-17]_(scott@lm)🐧_
$ cat 17780307091.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Discord
StartupWMClass=discord
Comment=All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
GenericName=Internet Messenger
Exec=/usr/bin/discord
Icon=discord
Type=Application
Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;
Path=/usr/bin
X-XFCE-Source=file:///usr/share/applications/discord.desktop

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