How can I open the programs installed inside junest without the need of using the terminal?

[All3xJ]

If I want to open a file with a program installed with junest, how can I do it in a easy and fast way?

[PrivacyDragon]

You can create a .desktop file of the program you want to use. I can give an example in an hour. (I just woke up ;-))

[PrivacyDragon]

• create a file called PROGRAMNAME.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications
• Put this text in the file, where you replace the stuff in caps for that what you need.

  [Desktop Entry]
  Name=PROGRAM NAME
  Comment=SOME DESCRIPTION, CAN BE THE SAME AS THE NAME
  Exec=~/.local/share/junest/bin/junest -- PROGRAM
  Terminal=False
  Type=Application
  Icon=PROGRAMNAME.png
  Categories=CATEGORIES THE PROGRAM SHOULD BE LISTED IN.;
  MimeType=MIMETYPE OF THE TYPE OF FILE YOU WANT TO OPEN WITH THE PROGRAM

  For the Icon, you should go to ~/.junest/usr/share/icons/hicolor and there look where the icon of the program is and copy it to the same place of ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor

[All3xJ]

Thanks for answer!

You can create a .desktop file of the program you want to use.

Yeah I know, I was just looking for something automated instead of manually creating a .desktop file actually

[bayazidbh]

Maybe we can follow what Wine does with its generated StartMenu items, which is then mirrored in ~/.local/share/applications? Say, a command to do a detection of all items in ~/.junest/usr/share/applications and then automatically convert detected .desktop files into .desktop files useable by host OS placed inside ~/.local/share/applications/junest ?

I think it'll especially help as while many packages are inside ~/.junest/usr/bin there are a few created in ~/.junest/opt/ which doesn't seem to be picked up automatically by bin_wrappers but does create .desktop files inside ~/.junest/usr/share/applications.

[fsquillace]

Thanks for answer!

You can create a .desktop file of the program you want to use.

Yeah I know, I was just looking for something automated instead of manually creating a .desktop file actually

That's a great idea! It might be as simple as updating the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable like:

export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:~/.junest/usr/share

I've never tested this though. This may only work if you update the PATH variable first with the bin wrappers: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest#run-junest-installed-programs-directly-from-host-os

We'd need to check whether the PATH update with bin_wrappers gets picked up by the desktop. For that I guess a restart is needed first.

If this work 🤞, I will update the documentation.

[fsquillace]

That's a great idea! It might be as simple as updating the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable like:

export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:~/.junest/usr/share

Actually no, some .desktop files contains absolute path under Exec entry (like bssh), whereas others don't (like htop). So, it might be not that trivial.

[clemencyworld1]

in my case, absolute PATH is needed for the desktop file to work.