Ardour puts a Desktop file on my desktop, however it only has read and write rights.
When running Ardour in Gnome there’s also no icon showing up in the panel.
Should’t the desktop file be copied to the correct location and not to the desktop?
The installer calls xdg-desktop-menu install to set up the Desktop launcher. If the permissions or location are wrong the this is an issue with the distro at hand.
Could you provide more information that may help to get to the bottom of this?
Sorry, I’m on Ubuntu 24.04 / Gnome and usually the desktop files are located in e.g.
/usr/share/applications
I installed Ardour with sh ./Ardour … and entered my password when being asked. The installation location is /opt/.
That is reserved for applications that are packaged by Ubuntu.
Assuming Ubuntu follows freedesktop.org specs, the launchers will be in File locations | Desktop Menu Specification
I’m getting the icon in the app overview and i can launch Ardour by clicking that icon (however the icon is missing in the dock panel) .
The old desktop file from Ardour 8.7 was installed in /home/fox/.local/share/applications and the desktop file of version 9 is actually in /usr/share/applications and it is marked executable (in contrast to all other desktop files).
That’s the content:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/opt/Ardour-9.0.0/bin/ardour9
Name=Ardour-9.0.0
Icon=Ardour-Ardour_9.0.0
Comment=Digital Audio Workstation
Categories=AudioVideo;AudioEditing;Audio;Recorder;
There’s another desktop file directly on my desktop with this content. So it’s somehow double. (deleted it…)
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/opt/Ardour-9.0.0/bin/ardour9
Name=Ardour-9.0.0
Icon=Ardour-Ardour_9.0.0
Comment=Digital Audio Workstation
Categories=AudioVideo;AudioEditing;Audio;Recorder;
So, only issue is that the icon is not found for the dock panel. Possibly one has to link to the whole path in Icon=Ardour-Ardour_9.0.0