I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, I've created launchers for different applications but one of the launchers doesn't start my app, I don't know why, but when I run the same command in the terminal it works properly.
The structure of the files .desktop is the same.
Here's my launcher designer.desktop file which doesn't work
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=TIBCO Designer
Exec=/TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer
Icon=/TIBCO/tibco/tools/resouces/icons/tibco-icon.png
and this is the one working dbvis.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=DbVisualizer
Exec=/opt/DbVisualizer/dbvis
Icon=/opt/DbVisualizer/resources/images/ix3/dbvis-icon.icns
both of them have permissions to be executed chmod +x *.desktop
screenshot showing files permissions
When I run this command /TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer in my terminal it works fine and my application starts successfully
Execline toExec=/bin/bash "/TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer"and report back. Also is this a GUI app? – pomsky Apr 16 '20 at 15:59Terminal=true, it might give a clue. – pomsky Apr 16 '20 at 16:44Exec=bash -c '/TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer'? – pomsky Apr 16 '20 at 16:55/TIBCO/tibco/....is not a valid directory for a .desktop file./optobviously is a full path. Terminal reads from current working directory, that's why it works. – Jacob Vlijm Apr 16 '20 at 17:30/TIBCO/tibco/...is also a full path, if it's not a valid directory for a.desktopfile, I don't know about, and I cannot change it – Radwane Mabchour Apr 16 '20 at 17:45/TIBCO/tibco/...is the full path so my app is under/not/root, the is that i can run the same command in terminal but when i make a launcher for my app providing the same command, it doesn't work – Radwane Mabchour Apr 17 '20 at 09:11