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Via terminal I can launch application as s particular groupid:

sudo sg - nonet nonetmath

where nonet is the group name & nonetmath is the binary in /bin... Now I want to create a .desktop file for ease of access

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Mathe
Exec=sudo sg - nonet nonetmath
Icon=<iconpath>
Categories=Education;

but this isn't not working...the system is configured such that sudo dont prompt for pswd this was done by editing

sudo visudo

any help here

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Is your .desktop file executable? They have to be. – stonedsquirrel Feb 3 at 14:43
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There also is a [ missing in the first line of your file. I'm guessing it's a typo that happened while posting here, but I thought I better mention it ;-) – stonedsquirrel Feb 3 at 14:48
Thnx, it was a typo while posting here. Problem isn't yet solved guys? I can perfectly run command in terminal why not via .desktop file? – nightcrawler Feb 3 at 17:46
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Did you check if the file is executable? You should also use desktop-file-validate on your file to check if it has any errors. – stonedsquirrel Feb 3 at 19:05
@stonedsquirrel Thanks – nightcrawler Feb 5 at 9:21
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Not sure if it's the same problem, but I can never make my .desktop files or launchers work with sudo. I click on them and nothing happens. When I change it to gksudo, however, they work fine.

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