Menu icon doesn't work

[smd0665]

I had VLC installed, but I wasn't getting any sound. So, I uninstalled it and decided to compile it from scratch. Now, it works and there is an icon in the menu, but the icon does not start the program - I need to start it from a terminal. VLC was installed in /usr/local/bin. Could it be that the icon is pointing to a different directory? How can I check it and change it? Thank you.

[Marty Jack]

The first thing to do is run the program from a terminal to make sure it is starting properly. If that works, then locate the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications and edit it to your liking. You will probably have to enable the Terminal=true setting if that is what you need.

We have a package lxshortcut. If you install that, there will be a right-click item on the menu item Properties that will bring up lxshortcut on the item so you can examine it. You need root privileges to change the file in /usr/share/applications however.

[smd0665]

That did the trick. Thank you very much!

[RafalR]

Hi,

I am trying to set a shorcut / icon to mount an EncFS volume/filesystem. This needs opening terminal to type in the password opening EncFS.

I prepared everything as described above and in other threads, including the setting Terminal=true and it does not work (a click on icon produces nothing). Also changed manually (with sudo rights) the path to encfs and fusermount commands so that a full path is shown, also no cure.

Either lxshortcut is not properly recognizing the Terminal=true setting or the multi option command related to encfs

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encfs encrypted_volume_path decrypted_volume_path

Exactly the same command started by rightclicking shell script as below and choosing "run" - works perfectly (with terminal opening etc)

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#!/bin/bash
encfs encfs encrypted_volume_path decrypted_volume_path

Any ideas ?