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Friedrich

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Registered: 2016-09-18

Posts: 140

How to mark all Desktop icons as executable

After an update in the last few weeks i have to mark desktop icon again as executable when i start them for the first time (first time after the update). That's annoying. Is there a way to mark all of them as executable? I don't think thats the same as making a normal script executable with 'chmod +x'. When i ru 'ls ~/Desktop' all *.desktop are executable.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: How to mark all Desktop icons as executable

When thunar "Allow this file to run as a program", it sets the files "access::can-execute" attribute. You can see all these attributes with:

gio info DESKTOP_FILE

...where DESKTOP_FILE is the name of a desktop file.

Unfortunately, the gio command line utility is only able to set some of these settings but not all of them:

$ gio set file:///home/toz/Desktop/myapp.desktop  "access::can-execute" true
gio: Setting attribute access::can-execute not supported

It looks like manually changing every file is the only way to fix this.

Out of curiosity, what kind of update was this? Just a regular update or did you upgrade to a newer version of a distro? An update really shouldn't affect these settings.

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Friedrich

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Registered: 2016-09-18

Posts: 140

Re: How to mark all Desktop icons as executable

I guess it was an update from xfce 4.14 to 4.16.