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Wrapper around desktop-file-install to edit Ubuntu launchers (`.desktop` files aka shortcuts)
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| LOC="$HOME/.local/share/applications" | |
| OOPS() | |
| { | |
| echo "OOPS: $*" >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| } | |
| edit() | |
| { | |
| f="$1" | |
| case "$f" in | |
| *..*) OOPS "illegal path: $1";; | |
| */applications/*/*) OOPS "wrong path: $1";; | |
| */applications/*) ;; | |
| */*) OOPS "wrong path: $1";; | |
| *) f="$LOC/${f%.desktop}.desktop"; [ -s "$f" ] || { ls -al "$LOC" >&2; OOPS "not found: $1"; };; | |
| esac | |
| [ -s "$f" ] || OOPS "unknown: $1" | |
| TMP="$(mktemp -d)" | |
| n="$TMP/${f##*/}" | |
| cp -f "$f" "$n" | |
| while vim "$n" | |
| echo "$?: $n" | |
| desktop-file-install --delete-original --dir="`dirname "$f"`" "$n" | |
| rmdir "$TMP" && return | |
| read | |
| do | |
| : | |
| done | |
| } | |
| edit "$1" |
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Thanks to http://askubuntu.com/a/447703 and
desktop-file-installthe changes update immediately in Compiz.BUGs:
.desktopfile is deleted before install of the new one. If the new one contains errors, the previous version vanishes unseen. You will find it in the/tmp/directory somewhere (but/tmp/is meant to be erased on reboots!) in such a case. This is a design flaw.returnafter reading the messages) until all errors in the.desktopfile are fixed. If you want to break the loop, press^D(EOF) after leaving the editor, but this will kill the original.desktopfile, see previous point.Missing features:
License:
How to add such a
.desktopfile to the Ubuntu launcher if it is missing:How to use this:
vim. If you like another editor, replace this. Perhaps replacevimin the script witheditor./usr/share/applications/*.desktopfiles if you run itsudo(never been tested!), but you shouldn't.~/.local/share/applications/first and edit them there. But this, again, has not been tested.