oops - wrong place - sorry :\
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Snap-installed .desktop items cannot be overridden
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The .desktop files for snaps are located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop. And
their names are in the following format: snap-package-name_original-
name.desktop. This explains why overrides with original-name.desktop in
~/.local/share/applications/ did not work. When renamed to snap-package-
name_original
No, I don't think we should document this. It's unsupported, and can and
will break things. Only for the brave.
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Title:
Snap-installed .desktop i
Hi John, thank you for the information. The .desktop files are indeed
located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop. And their names are in the following
format: snap-package-name_original-name.desktop. This explains why
overrides with original-name.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/ did
not work. When re
The problem is that you saw a .desktop file inside the snap and assumed
that your desktop environment was using that directly.
It's not; that would be dangerous. snapd takes those .desktop files, and
sanitises and transforms them, and the resulting sanitised and
transformed files are the ones pick
The problem with such overrides is that anything that needs to adjust
the executable line is a social engineering attack on the sandbox
mechanism. Not having experienced this issue myself, is Skype the only
application that is affected by the upside down camera? What about
things like Firefox or GN
In such a case, there should be an option to hide .desktop items for a
particular app from the launcher. There are cases when fixes in .desktop items
are the only sane way of fixing stuff, and the camera issue is a great example
of this. That camera model is mounted upside-down in some laptop mo
This is by design, there are no user configurable elements there.
If the Skype desktop file is malfunctioning the people packaging the
application need to take measures to fix it. I understand that there is
desire to fix an issue with a particular camera but you need to take it
up with the Microso
