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Vitor Abella
Asked: 2020-01-13 10:40:53 +0800 CST

How to mark a .desktop file as trusted from command line on Ubuntu 18.04?

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I tried:

gio set myapp.desktop "metadata::trusted" yes

and

dbus-launch gio set myapp.desktop "metadata::trusted" yes

and get from both:

gio: Setting attribute metadata::trusted not supported
permissions .desktop

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have to add execution bit for the desktop file:

    cd ~/Desktop
chmod a+x myapp.desktop

    and mark it as trusted with

    gio set myapp.desktop metadata::trusted yes

    and then press F5 to reload the desktop icons.

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  2. I faced the same issue in UBUNTU 20.04LTS today and I noticed that the value yes has been replaced by true

    so in case tou are searching for ubuntu 20.04 and you come in this link use the following command:

    gio set myapp.desktop metadata::trusted true
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