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Untrusted Application Launcher

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So I'm trying to create a desktop icon for an application, and I dragged it from the top-left menu (I think it's called Dash or something). I clicked on it and it says it is untrusted and refuse to execute it.

I found out that I have go to Permission and check the checkbox saying "Allow executing file as program". However, when I open up the Permission dialog it says "I am not the owner, therefore I cannot change those settings." Everything is disabled and I can't check it.

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Why is this happening and how do I "make myself the owner"?

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answered 2 Years ago puccop · Accepted Answer

Open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt +T then run this command:
```
cd ~/Desktop

sudo chmod +x sublime_text.desktop
```
Change Desktop to whatever your desktop is called in your language.
chmod is a command line command to change permissions, +x make it executable

or instead you can run:
```
cd ~/Desktop

sudo chown yourusername sublime_text.desktop
```
chown is command line command to change file owner