[PLUG-TALK] Find name of program to uninstall it
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at gmx.com
Sun Sep 10 23:31:08 UTC 2023
That is very interesting, I have only three snap applications still
installed, and two are command line utilities. The remaining one is
Aegisub-procles, which cannot currently be installed with apt due to
missing dependencies. After installing it I couldn't find a menu item
to launch it, and then discovered that there was no .desktop file for
it. I was looking in /usr/share/applications, so I just opened a
.desktop file for another program and edited it to change the specifics
for Aegisub-procles, then did a Save-As to create a proper menu entry.
Had I known there was aegisub-procles.desktop in /var/lib/snapd/desktop
it would have saved me the few minutes it took to kludge my own
.desktop file. But more importantly, the file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop
failed to make a menu item in the Xfce Applications plugin; I had no
launch menu entry until I created my own .desktop file. Either the
Applications plugin needs to be told to look in /var/lib/snapd/desktop,
or snap needs to put .desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:56:23 -0700
Rigel Hope <gnu at rigelhope.org> dijo:
>just in the interest of documenting some kind of pointer for
>troubleshooting, the following link:
>
>https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/overriding-desktop-files-on-ubuntu-snaps/6599
>
>says
>"The .desktop files are indeed located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop. And
>their names are in the following format:
>snap-package-name_original-name.desktop"
>
>so if youre not especially familiar with snaps, it's both an unexpected
>location and an unexpected naming convention if you're trying to just
>override something
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