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I've been using Chrome for years but just noticed this feature now, but sadly it doesn't work for me. I did some Googling and found a few articles that offered fixes but none helped, I found this thread which mentioned that it will only work out of the box for Chromium that is compiled correctly for Linux and the official Google Chrome. Well I have the version of Chromium from Extra and the official Google Chrome package from the AUR and neither work. When I try to create a shortcut it pops up an error box that says "Chromium (Google Chrome) Could Not Create An Application Shortcut". In that link I referenced above it mentioned that the variables XDG_DATA_DIRS should be set to the location of the templates, I'm not sure what the location of the templates are but it's set to /usr/share:/usr/share/local and it says that the CHROME_DESKTOP variable should be set to the desktop link. Mine was empty so I set it to Chromium and it still didn't work.
I'm using KDE, maybe it's something screwy with KDE because VirtualBox won't create desktop shortcuts either.
I know I can create simple shortcuts but I want the icons with it too. Any ideas?
Last edited by brando56894 (2013-11-28 02:39:50)
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anyone?
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this web site explains what I think you're looking for
http://blog.manki.in/2009/09/chrome-apps-on-linux.html
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Thanks buddy!
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