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Old 05-23-2025, 12:14 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
I had to tweak this to work with Manjaro. In my *.desktop files I had to use full absolute paths to the applications, and fill in a Generic Name field before the error message about improper desktop file went away.

They also seemed to want them in my ~/.local/share/applications/ folder not the ~/.local/share/apps folder (the former is specified in the XDG desktop spec).

Then to get the icon to show up on the AppImage in the Dolphin file manager, I had to install the libappimage package and make sure in the Dolphin Configure page to enable Previews of AppImages.

Now I have a wonderful Applications folder on my Desktop where all my AppImages are located. KDE Plasma 6 with AppImages is beginning to look more like my MacOS Desktop which is a nice thing for muscle memory.
My mistake for the desktop location. It is definitely ~/.local/share/applications/ and not apps.

I had no idea about the libappimage package, thanks!

I just stuck sigil.svg in ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps. But a library that uses the icon within the AppImage is a much better approach. Unfortunately, I don't think the Nemo file browser on my Cinnamon desktop has an "enable previews of AppImages" option.
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