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[Locked] Launchers .desktop files hard-coded with current username folder
Guest English 1 fabounet [Read]
10 September 2012 à 18:13

Guest, Monday 10 September 2012 à 17:53

The launchers in the .config/cairo-dock/current_theme/launchers folder contain an absolute path to a specific username. This becomes a problem when you wish to create a custom distro which uses Cairo Dock and the OS installer creates a username that does not match the username folder in the .desktop file. Additionally, Remastersys recognizes this and skips the .desktop files when copying the user config to /etc/skel/.config. Could you modify your app to have the .desktop files point to the current user folder rather than a specific user's folder?

fabounet, Monday 10 September 2012 à 18:13


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The launchers in the ~/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/launchers folder contain an absolute path to a specific username


coudl you give an example please ?
because since the 2.4 (or the 3.0, forgot which one), the .desktops in ~/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/launchers contain merely the path to the original .desktop in /usr/share/applications.

you can even give several .desktop, so that if one is missing, another will be picked up (like firefox.desktop;chrome.desktop;konqueror.desktop)

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[Locked] Launchers .desktop files hard-coded with current username folder
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10 September 2012 à 18:13


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