When I create app shortcuts in Google Chrome, the shortcut icons appear, but they don't work. Any idea why? I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 and Chrome 28.0.1500.29 beta.
Opening up the created .desktop files in a text editor displays:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Gmail
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
Icon=chrome-pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia-Default
StartupWMClass=crx_pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia
When running the command /opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default, however, I get the error:
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Examining the file /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop, which ships with Chrome, indicates that the correct executable path is /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome, not /opt/google/chrome/chrome. So the problem can be fixed by editing the created .desktop file, changing the Exec line from:
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
To
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
