I use a third-party application (gnome-latex) which will only launch if I run it from the Terminal (just running ‘gnome-latex’) or if I click ‘Launch’ within ‘Add/Remove Software’. Clicking on the application from ‘Show Applications’, or by searching for it in Activities, or from the dock, doesn’t w…

You should put your modified and custom .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications so they won’t be modified by any updates, and these files will always be preferentially used by your user profile over system versions with the same names in /usr/share/applications.

Clicking on an application won't launch it

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maycne.sonahoz 17 March 2022 20:31 12