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Gnome Desktop Entry Format extensions - bootlegged documentation

Note: if you work on desktop entry files, you should refresh them to see the results: Alt-F2 and run 'r' or 'restart' to restart gnome-shell. Otherwise changes might only work after you log out.

The desktop entry specification creates a standard for application launchers. Gnome adds several extensions to the format which are widely in use, but as far as I can tell undocumented. This is an attempt to document them so I can write my own autostart launchers for gnome. Pull requests are highly welcome.

There is a guide on gnome developer that explains basics about how to integrate an application with the desktop.

Autostart applications run when the user logs into the graphical desktop environment. All desktop managers make custom extensions to the format. This attempts just to cover the Gnome extensions, and won'

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GitLab is a self hosted Git management software based on Ruby on Rails.

It is free software and that is always a plus!

This tutorial is heavily based on the excellent post at rosehosting.com and collects information I found in documentation and on the internet generally.

Note: We'll work in a root console using Bash

If you don't have an editor of choice install vim (it's great!)

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#!/bin/bash

##########################
## Check if run as root ##
##########################

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi