Launcher for an executable

[deshmukh]

Running Manjaro Gnome.

This is very basic, I am sure. But could not figure out a solution.

I have installed TiddlyDesktop. Its executable, nw resides in ~/td. In ~/.local/share/applications there is a TiddlyDesktop.desktop file that contains:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TiddlyWiki Desktop
Comment=
Keywords=
Exec=/home/user/td/nw
TryExec=
Terminal=false
Icon=TiddlyDesktop
Type=Application
Categories=
MimeType=
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=
OnlyShowIn=
Actions=

But still, there is no trace of TiddlyDesktop as I hit Super key and start entering the name.

How do I get that functionality?

[Shirshendu]

Restart the gnome shell (Alt+F2 then type r and press Enter)
Or just log out and log back in

[winnie]

Usually that happens if “Exec” points to a non executable and/or the executable doesn’t exist.

I would also remove entries that are left blank and not mandatory, such as “OnlyShowIn”.

Try changing it to Exec=/bin/true

Then running: update-desktop-database

See if it shows up in the menu now.

[deshmukh]

@winnie Thanks. That worked. I removed all ‘empty’ entries and now it works as expected.