On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:47 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote
.desktop files are not really supported any more as things to see or
click on.
I guess I didn't realize that, since there is still an installable extension for turning them on and off.
They are intended to be started through the Gnome interface.
Put them in "~/.local/share/applications" and they will show up in the
overview with everything else.
Thanks for that piece of information. That mostly works. It took me a few minutes to find them under Applications -> Other, but they are there and the icon images are there as well. It will take me a while to get used to where they are located now, but I suppose I will eventually get used to it.
> 2) When I double click one, the Exec=command is executed, but it also
> opens a full-screen window that I figured out is "gnome-games".
I hadn't heard of that application before, but that's where the problem is.
$ xdg-mime query default application/x-desktop
org.gnome.Games.desktop
If you look in /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Games.desktop, you can
see it claims that mimetype. That does seem like a bad idea.
I probably should have thought of just uninstalling it. I am getting older and I am slipping.
Oddly enough, after having been away from the computer for a couple of hours, when I got back the desktop icons had disappeared again. Even before I removed gnome-games and without my having done anything in the meantime. I wonder if they will reappear again the next time I reboot or log out. OK, so I restarted gnome-shell, and now they have appeared on the secondary monitor.
In any event, if that really isn't supported any more, I'll just remove them from ~/Desktop and get used to finding them in the Applications menu.
Thanks,
--Greg
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