On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 3:58 PM one7two99 <one7tw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Crossover (to start Office 2010) within Qubes and have some
> trouble with the App-shortcuts.
>
> The setup:
>
> - I have a template VM ("t-debian-10-crossover") which is based on
> debian-10-minimal and which has crossover installed
>
> - I have an AppVM ("my-crossover") which is based on the above template VM
>
> - I have installed some windows apps (Notepad++ / Office 2010) in the
> AppVM. The application are installed in ~/.cxoffice
>
> - I can launch the windows apps from the crossover menu or from an AppVM
> terminal (for example to launch MS Word from the AppVM Terminal
>
> I would like to add a menu entry to the Qubes AppVM menu and tried to
> follow the directions from the Qubes docs, but the menu didn't show up.
> While the Crossover App itself is installed in a template VM, the
> windows application are installed in a folder ~/.cxoffice in the AppVM
> (which based on the crossover template).
>
> The following command will launch a windows app via Crossover in the AppVM:
>
> qvm-run --auto my-crossover
>
> '/home/user/.cxoffice/Microsoft_Office_2010/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A_users_crossover_Start^2BMenu/Programs/Microsoft+Office/Microsoft+Word+2010.lnk'
>
> I have followed the Qubes docs from this link:
>
>
> /home/user/.cxoffice/Microsoft_Office_2010/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A_users_crossover_Start^2BMenu/Programs/Microsoft+Office/Microsoft+Word+2010.lnk
>
> I have therefore:
>
> 1) created a new .desktop file:
>
> [user@dom0 ~]$ nano
> ~/.local/share/applications/my-crossover-ms-word.desktop
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> X-Qubes-VmName=my-crossover
>
> Icon=/home/user/.local/share/qubes-appmenus/my-crossover/apps.icons/cxmenu-cxoffice-0-29ra4ke-CrossOver.png
> Name=my-crossover: MS-Word
> Comment=Run Microsoft Word with CrossOver Linux
> Categories=;X-Qubes-VM;
> Exec=qvm-run --auto my-crossover
>
> /home/user/.cxoffice/Microsoft_Office_2010/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A_users_crossover_Start^2BMenu/Programs/Microsoft+Office/Microsoft+Word+2010.lnk
>
>
> 2) added the newly creaed my-crossover-ms-word.desktop file to a new
> .menu file (as mentioned in the Qubes docs)
>
> [user@dom0 ~]$ cat
> ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/my-crossover-vm.menu
> <Menu>
> <Name>MS-Word</Name>
> <Include>
> <Filename>my-crossover-ms-word.desktop</Filename>
> </Include>
> </Menu>
>
>
> BUT ... doing so, is _not_ adding anything the applications menu of my
> AppVM.
>
> Any ideas what I am missing?
>
>
>
You can try this a different way. Try creating a basic
my-crossover-ms-word.desktop with the command you would run in that AppVM.
Then copy that to the template in /usr/share/applications. Force a sync of
the menus in that template, and finally go to the AppVM qubes dialog and
add your app to your AppVM menu. As long as you know to only run the
program in that one VM then you are OK if it's not actually installed in
that template.
Once it is in the menu you can always go back and diff the changes and see
what edits you should have done manually. I find it's just easier to let
the system edit the menus, because otherwise it will just get overwritten
sometime anyway. As long as you remember to copy those desktop files to the
next template upgrade version, it should just work like any other standard
application.
>
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