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Re: Modifying Desktop Icons

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On 21/06/2024 00:26, Pranjal Singh wrote:
>>> What I've done is changing /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop:
>>>
>>> - Exec=firefox %u
>>> + Exec=firefox -private-window %u
>>>
>>> I also created a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications, but
>>> that too didn't work.

You may file a bug (if it does not exist yet) against the Debian package 
to add alternative actions in the desktop file, see
<https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/taskcluster/docker/firefox-snap/firefox.desktop>

It would not open private widow by default though, it just would make it 
available from GUI.

Have you checked your files using the desktop-file-validate tool?

Are you sure that your desktop environment uses namely files you have 
edited, not a copy of the original file? Menus may use cache with data 
extracted from desktop files instead of files directly. Try to set 
unique Name and Comment.

Notice that the firefox-esr bookworm package contains 
/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop, not 
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop. I would avoid editing 
/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop since every package update 
means revert to original version with loosing changes.

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Modifying Desktop Icons Pranjal Singh <pranjal.singh4370@gmail.com> - 2024-06-17 21:50 +0200
  Re: Modifying Desktop Icons eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-17 22:10 +0200
    Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Pranjal Singh <pranjal.singh4370@gmail.com> - 2024-06-20 19:50 +0200
      Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: Modifying Desktop Icons debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-06-20 22:00 +0200
          Re: Modifying Desktop Icons "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2024-06-22 12:20 +0200
            Re: Modifying Desktop Icons [Solved] Pranjal Singh <pranjal.singh4370@gmail.com> - 2024-06-22 22:20 +0200
              Re: Modifying Desktop Icons [Solved] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-23 04:20 +0200
      Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-21 04:10 +0200
  Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2024-06-18 02:50 +0200
    Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-06-20 20:20 +0200
      Re: Modifying Desktop Icons <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-06-20 20:40 +0200
    Re: Modifying Desktop Icons <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-06-20 20:30 +0200
      Re: Modifying Desktop Icons debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-06-20 22:00 +0200
        Re: Modifying Desktop Icons Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-20 23:20 +0200
        Re: Modifying Desktop Icons <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-06-21 06:40 +0200

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