Quote from: rbscebu on September 09, 2019, 01:34:34 AM

I now want to install an app launch in my start menu. I did this by

Code:

cd ~/Electrum-3.3.5
sudo desktop-file-install electrum.desktop

This installed the app launcher in my menu://applications/Internet directory (although it was a hidden app so I had to unhide it).

For this app launcher the target file is "/home/richard/.local/share/applications/electrum.desktop" and the command is "electrum %u"

The only problem is that when I try to launch Electrum in my start menu nothing happens. Where have I gone wrong?

Since you need sudo/su to run Electrum, then probably command in electrum.desktop doesn't include sudo at the beginning of the command.
You might want try running the electrum.desktop from terminal to see error message / actual problem.

But using sudo/su to run Ellectrum is strongly not recommend and it's bad practice.