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correct-apricot
Shortcuts can't boot the games
Using Heroic-2.12.1 AppImage. Any game be it installed or local won't start from the desktop and start menu shortcuts.
Example is from Hitman Absolution installed from GOG ("Couldn't open the URI. The specified location is not supported.")
6 Replies
stormy-gold•17mo ago
what is in the
Exec= line in the desktop shortcut?correct-apricotOP•17mo ago
stormy-gold•17mo ago
unless you have set up a URI handler for the appimage, you'll need to replace
xdg-open with the path to the AppImage, and I'm not 100% sure if you need something extra in between to signify that you're launching a specific game that waydependent-tan•17mo ago
using flatpak version would be a lot easier here
stormy-gold•17mo ago
agreed
correct-apricotOP•17mo ago
hmm, I tend to avoid flatpaks. would the .tar.xz need workarounds too? EDIT: tried it and yep, same as the appimage
solved it creating a .desktop in /usr/share/applications that executes the AppImage (or .tar.xz executable) as
and then using the mimeo package to assign it to the MIME type:
thanks for pointing me in the right direction, this was a bit more confusing (but simpler) than adding MIME types for thumbnail generation 🙂