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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, I've created launchers for different applications but one of the launchers doesn't start my app, I don't know why, but when I run the same command in the terminal it works properly. The structure of the files .desktop is the same.

Here's my launcher designer.desktop file which doesn't work

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=TIBCO Designer
Exec=/TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer
Icon=/TIBCO/tibco/tools/resouces/icons/tibco-icon.png

and this is the one working dbvis.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=DbVisualizer
Exec=/opt/DbVisualizer/dbvis
Icon=/opt/DbVisualizer/resources/images/ix3/dbvis-icon.icns

both of them have permissions to be executed chmod +x *.desktop

screenshot showing files permissions

When I run this command /TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer in my terminal it works fine and my application starts successfully

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  • Please try changing the Exec line to Exec=/bin/bash "/TIBCO/tibco/designer/5.11/bin/designer" and report back. Also is this a GUI app?
    – pomsky
    Apr 16, 2020 at 15:59
  • still no result, it doesn't show any error message but also no result
    – Radwane Mabchour
    Apr 16, 2020 at 16:04
  • Yes ! it is a GUI app not a script
    – Radwane Mabchour
    Apr 16, 2020 at 16:25
  • Try switching to Terminal=true, it might give a clue.
    – pomsky
    Apr 16, 2020 at 16:44
  • I tried it but still in the same situation
    – Radwane Mabchour
    Apr 16, 2020 at 16:54

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