I installed the telegram-desktop from synaptic package manager. However, i am not able to see the launcher icon for it. Each time, i have to go to terminal and run telegram-desktop to make it work.
Attaching the screenshot. It would be nice if somebody can help.
Looks like the desktop file is not executable.
Open a terminal, and run the command
chmod +x .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop
You might have to logout and login for it to show up in the menu.
If it does not work, replace the contents of the file .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop (using the command gedit .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop) with the following.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Telegram Desktop
Comment=Official desktop version of Telegram messaging app
TryExec=telegram-desktop
Exec=telegram-desktop -- %u
Icon=telegram
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=TelegramDesktop
Type=Application
Categories=Chat;Network;InstantMessaging;Qt;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;
Keywords=tg;chat;im;messaging;messenger;sms;tdesktop;
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true
You might have to run chmod +x .local/share/applications/telegramdesktop.desktop
once again.
