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When I create a starter file, unity does not display the icon with the name

Desktop display

Is it because of Unity or Ubuntu with gnome?

Kulfy
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LeLorrain
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  • what are you trying to do? if you miss starters in the desktop-environment you'd might want to look copy the *.desktop-files to ~/.local/share/applications/ and then edit them. – d1bro Nov 28 '18 at 23:27
  • you also don't have executable rights on these files. but what is it you're trying to achieve? – d1bro Nov 28 '18 at 23:33
  • I have all the rights for folders and starters, everyone of the starters has "execute" permission. This is happening with any starter that I create. – LeLorrain Nov 28 '18 at 23:54
  • This is also happening with starters created by PlayonLinux or Steam. – LeLorrain Nov 28 '18 at 23:57
  • still (mostly) all "starters" show in the menus? right? what are you trying to achieve? a .desktop-file is not like an .exe-file in Windows; perhaps read these two, then you might better understand: https://askubuntu.com/questions/281293/creating-a-desktop-file-for-a-new-application https://askubuntu.com/questions/117341/how-can-i-find-desktop-files – d1bro Nov 29 '18 at 01:37
  • @db429 > What menu? What I am showing here, I put a link to /usr/share/applications on my desktop to have easy access to all applications. Under 16.04, there was no problems, I could see the icons and the name of the application. Under 18.04 the display is as the image above, without icons nor proper name for the applications. – LeLorrain Dec 07 '18 at 04:28
  • See my answer to solve the problem! – LeLorrain Apr 06 '19 at 22:01

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I removed the unity shell and changed back to the gnome one, and discovered the you can create "bookmarks" on Unity files display which appears on the left side of the window Display of the "Bookmark Applications"

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