I don't know about GNOME which I assume your using being the default
desktop environment for Pop OS, but in KDE, which I'm using, they just
show up automatically. I would think it would show up in the menu as
"Sandboxed Web Browser"
Brian Cluff
On 3/22/21 11:30 AM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Thank you. The original goal was to add it to the menu in Pop OS. I'll
look again, but don't recall seeing it after I created it in
~/.local/share/applications. Do I need to use "--register-app" to add
it, or should it just show up?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:30 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
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A desktop file is standardized configuration file for Linux
desktops that describe how to represent a program in the menus
(complete with multiple language support), and how to launch it.
So you can't just launch it directly because it doesn't mean
anything to the command line. It should however be showing up in
your menus now and so you can put it in your favorites and easily
launch it that way.
That being cause, you can kinda turn it into an executable by
adding something like the following to the very top of the desktop
file:
#!/usr/bin/kioclient5 exec
That will tell the system to execute the desktop file with
kioclient... of course you need to be running KDE for that to work
correctly. I'm not sure what the GNOME equivalent of that command is.
Personally I would just pretty alt+F2 or alt+space may work as
well and just start to type "Sandboxed Web Browser" and you may
only have to type Sand or so before you can press enter and have
it launch.
Alternatives to starting it from the command line:
Create a file called sandfox in /usr/local/bin/ and put the
following into it.
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox $@
Then set it to be executable and then you can execute sandfox from
anywhere.
You could also set and alias with:
alias sandfox="/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"
That will allow you to type sandfox and internally it will replace
that with "/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox". That should
also work in most places equally well, but only for your username.
That's a one shot way of making that available. If you want it to
be permanent you'll need to add that line to your .bashrc file with:
echo alias sandfox='"/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox"'
>>~/.bashrc
I can't remember what your original goals were, so I hope the
above isn't completely shooting the dark.
Brian Cluff
On 3/19/21 10:25 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I took Brian's recommendation and created a file in
~/.local/share/applications called sandfox.desktop. Contents of
that file are:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Icon=/home/steve/Pictures/firejailed_firefox128.png
Exec=/usr/bin/firejail --apparmor firefox
Name=Sandboxed Web Browser
Terminal=false
I have it set to executable but when i try to run it
"./sandfox.desktop" I get the error:
./sandfox.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 5: --apparmor: command not found
./sandfox.desktop: line 6: Web: command not found
Is my file misconfigured or what do I not have correct?
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 5:47 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
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Under debian based distros, overriding an overwrite of ANY
installed file is easily done.
There's a really cool tool called dpkg-divert that the system
uses to take whatever files would normally be installed and
steer them into a different place so that you can put your
own version of the file in the same place without fear of it
going away on the next update.
Just do:
dpkg-divert --add --rename
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
In this case, that would be the overkill and less correct way
of handing the problem. A better way would be to put your
own version of the firefox.desktop into certain directories
and that cause it to override the system version of the
config. Put them in ~/.local/share/applications/ to change
an individual user and|| /usr/local/share/applications/ to
effect every user on the system.
Brian Cluff
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