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I made an account for my wife where she has non administrator privileges.
Among the music programs which she needs is Rosegarden.
There are 2 problems:



  1. None of the programs I install for her appear in her Activities screen.
    She can search for them, but I assume she won't remember what the names are for searching.
    Here is what the search shows:
    activitives



  2. Rosegarden cannot be made a favorite




favorite


What can I do to help her? If I log in user her user name, I have no sudo commands.
I can still access her files from my account where sudo exists.
Clearly I won't be able to change applications in her activities screen from my account.


Edit: to correct the desktop file, I added the line (but it didn't help):


StartupWMClass="Rosegarden"

Looking glass gave me


Untitled - Rosegarden
wmclass Rosegarden
<untracked>

Edit2: I still don't understand what exactly causes an application to become visible in Activities without it being searched for. I thought perhaps there is a program which might scan on startup, so I put rosegarden on the desktop and pinned Qsynth and Qjack to the favorites bar.


Then I logged off, and even tried to power down, but they still remain invisible in Activities (without doing a search). So that remains a mystery, but at least my wife has enough to work without being forced to remember program names. Perhaps in time the programs will become magically visible???


Likewise I can forward a link to this discussion to the rosegarden developers so they have a good idea what needs to be fixed. What I did fix is a good start but not sufficient.


Thanks in advance for all advice.


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Rosegarden cannot be made a favorite



Contact the developers of rosegarden. They need to fix how the software is executed, and may need to fix the .desktop file.




However, you can put an application launcher in your desktop.


Copy the .desktop file to your desktop (do this from your wife's account, you won't need sudo).


cp /usr/share/applications/com.rosegardenmusic.rosegarden.desktop ~/Desktop/
chmod +x ~/Desktop/com.rosegardenmusic.rosegarden.desktop

Now it should show up in the desktop (as an application launcher).


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