Users as your primary group?

never in my entire life I want to hear that, or Snap ever more

Exec=/home/muflone/bin/teams %U

and the teams file contains the first 3 lines from your script
and my teams.log file has text into it

literally the same technology as docker but built for for desktop apps

yeah, with the caveats that you can’t *easily* add volumes, other networks, connect to it, execute shell commands inside, have a neat CLI interface where I can search “teams” in the application launcher and select the “quit” action and it will send that command inside the running container, you can’t decide what privilege to give and what not, you can’t set reservations or limitations on cpu cycles, memory, etc

… you can do all of that with flatpak easily

you can be of your opinion that flatpak/snaps are great, I will stand by my opinion that I once tried to install a server in a snap, it was a nightmare to even only back it up, I discovered docker, I transitioned everything, I’m happy ever since

it may be much easier to use the right screwdriver is all I’m saying

well, actually the issue is not related to container but to the launcher which is not apparently launched

$ ls -lsh bin/teams
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 bryanpedini bryanpedini 1006 Aug 16 22:26 bin/teams
same for you?

I don’t have bryanpedini twice

you only get to deal with one of myselves 😂

$ LANG=C ls -lsh ~/bin
total 4.0K
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 muflone users 98 Aug 16 22:36 teams

users as your primary group?

never heard of it

sure

like don’t let your religiousness on what technologies you like and don’t like get in the way of you actually being able to get stuff done

okay… I’m getting crazy…

now my teams only contains
#!/bin/bash
echo “teams running” >> ~/teams.log

and my .desktop only contains
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Microsoft Teams – Preview
Exec=~/bin/teams %U
Terminal=false

and it STILL DOESN’T WORK!!!

(I backed up both of them before nuking everything)

and it still doesn’t work

and you ask me why I don’t plasma, LOL

tho one thing I noticed is that the application launcher still have the icon and still have the quit action

check if you have multiple desktop files with the same name

or if your launcher has a way to get the desktop file path

may it be that I started this endless journey with Exec=teams %U, for the terminal teams was a valid command but maybe .bashrc isn’t evaluated by .desktop files so ~/bin isn’t in my PATH, and even after changing the .desktop file it just didn’t get updated and was still stuck on the old invalid command !?!?

you need to poke the cache

normally package installations/updates and flatpak would do this for you

or other GUI stuff

use the full path, not ~ which doesn’t mean anything

but you’re doing stuff by hand so uh, let me find the command

kbuild tab complete

straight out of rightclick->properties inside the application launcher

rightfully .local/share/application/teams.desktop

if you have kmenueditor there should be an option to edit graphically which will update all the caches for you

“Edit Application” brings up the properties

this is the “Application” tab, the editor is basically baked in the properties it seems

maybe it’s cached somehow