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cshenkan

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From: Bucks County, PA

Registered: 2013-11-05

Posts: 28

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Getting GNOME to recognized packages from AUR

Hey Guys,

I've been searching around for an answer, haven't come across one yet that has worked for me.

When installing a package from AUR, (for example teamviewer which i frequently have to use to help technology illiterate people) I run makepkg -S after extracting, then build by running pacman -U

The application installs, and I can start it from command line.. however when using a GUI application, starting from command line sort of defeats the purpose.  Is there a way I can get GNOME to display the application in the application list and not show the title as Unknown?

Thanks for you help, if there's an answer on the forums I missed with my searches I apologize ahead of time.

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Re: Getting GNOME to recognized packages from AUR

I do not use Gnome, but you may want to look at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Entries and https://developer.gnome.org/integration … es.html.en. You could ask the maintainer of the AUR package as well to see if there's an appetite to have a .desktop entry packaged.

cshenkan

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From: Bucks County, PA

Registered: 2013-11-05

Posts: 28

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Re: Getting GNOME to recognized packages from AUR

Thanks, I'll take a look at those.

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 415

Re: Getting GNOME to recognized packages from AUR

If the package does not provide a .desktop file, you can manually create one and place it in ~/.local/share/applications
Files placed in that location show up in the Gnome launcher.

mar04

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From: Poland

Registered: 2010-02-08

Posts: 117

Re: Getting GNOME to recognized packages from AUR

You can  use gendesk to generate desktop files.