If you double-click on (allow-executing-file-as-program) start-tor-browser
, you should be presented with a dialog of four options: Run
, Run-in-Terminal
, Display
and Cancel
. Do you see these options? If so, try Run
.
Alternatively, you can set up a custom keyboard shortcut and use something like the following command (depending on where / into which folder you extracted tor
):
"/home/user_name/my_tor/bundle/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser"
to launch tor
.
(Don't use sudo
.)
If you wanted to launch tor
via the command line, you could navigate to the folder and just type start-tor-browser
. Given that it's just locally downloaded and not formally installed, you'll need to supply the path (or register start-tor-browser
manually - but that's a separate question).
Update (mid-May 2015)
The previous command ceased to work for me. The following does work:
sh -c '"/home/user_name/where_i_put_tor/bundle/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ ! -x "/home/user_name/where_i_put_tor/bundle/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k
... taken from the official Tor desktop configuration file ...
tor
on Linux / that system before?