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Asked: 2020-08-10 21:49:37 +0800 CST

Telegram 2.1.7 launcher icon not showing up ubuntu 20.04

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I installed the telegram-desktop from synaptic package manager. However, i am not able to see the launcher icon for it. Each time, i have to go to terminal and run telegram-desktop to make it work.

Attaching the screenshot. It would be nice if somebody can help.

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20.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Looks like the desktop file is not executable.

    Open a terminal, and run the command

    chmod +x .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop

    You might have to logout and login for it to show up in the menu.

    If it does not work, replace the contents of the file .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop (using the command gedit .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop) with the following.

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Telegram Desktop
Comment=Official desktop version of Telegram messaging app
TryExec=telegram-desktop
Exec=telegram-desktop -- %u
Icon=telegram
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=TelegramDesktop
Type=Application
Categories=Chat;Network;InstantMessaging;Qt;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;
Keywords=tg;chat;im;messaging;messenger;sms;tdesktop;
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true

    You might have to run chmod +x .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop once again.

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  2. Just delete .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop and everything works fine. Must be left over from an older installation.

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