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I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

/home/peter/LINUX/Packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

I've tried EVERY method to do it but they don't work! I can run the app
by double clicking it, but I can't make it appear in the menu. ??
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On Mon, 12/15/2025 3:49 AM, Felix wrote:

I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

/home/peter/LINUX/Packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

I've tried EVERY method to do it but they don't work! I can run the app by double clicking it, but I can't make it appear in the menu. ??

It needs a desktop file.

*******

Start with one of your source ZIP files, a czkawka-master.ZIP, and
it is in the data folder.

czkawka-master/data/
com.github.qarmin.czkawka.desktop 716 bytes

I cleaned this up a tiny bit so it doesn't
get damaged in transit. You can find the
original in one of your source ZIP files.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=czkawka_gui
Name=Czkawka
Name[it]=Singhiozzo
Comment=Multi functional duplicate file finder
Comment[it]=Trova file duplicati multifunzionale
Icon=com.github.qarmin.czkawka
Categories=System;FileTools Keywords=Hiccup;duplicate;same;similar;cleaner;copy;copies;compare;files; StartupWMClass=czkawka_gui
TryExec=czkawka_gui

That's the contents of a desktop file.

Now, examine some of the system desktop files, to
get more of the details to look the same. Like if
the path is an absolute path in a system desktop
file, you can set the TryExec as well. I don't know where
you unpacked the executable, so you'll have to adjust this.

TryExec=/home/felix/Downloads/czkawka_gui

It will likely take a few tries to tip that upright
and get that integrated.

If you had a Debian .deb for the program (even some other version),
that will likely have a Desktop file in it as well.

Paul
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Felix wrote:

I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

You need to create a .desktop file for your app. These .desktop files
sit in a couple of folders like /usr/share/applications etc. and once
created are found by the OS. An easy way to create this desktop file
would be to use "Menulibre" (sudo apt install menulibre), which gives
you an overview of all desktop files and allows you to create new ones.

-jw-
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On Mon, 12/15/2025 4:45 AM, Paul wrote:

On Mon, 12/15/2025 3:49 AM, Felix wrote:

I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

/home/peter/LINUX/Packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

I've tried EVERY method to do it but they don't work! I can run the app by double clicking it, but I can't make it appear in the menu. ??

It needs a desktop file.

TryExec=/home/felix/Downloads/czkawka_gui

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https://i.postimg.cc/3w96CMVC/LMDE7-czkawka-desktop-file.gif

You are on LMDE7.

The program is in Synaptic. You installed it from there.

That gives a desktop file you can use as an example.

You may want to create a separate desktop file that
points to your portable executable in /home/felix/Downloads/czkawka_gui

That means the TryExec will need to be changed. I don't know how rigidly enforced the rules are about filenames and what they launch. (Whether
you could have a "czkawka10" kind of file, with its own separate
TryExec and so on.

Paul
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On 2025-12-15, Felix <none@not.here> wrote:

I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

/home/peter/LINUX/Packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

I've tried EVERY method to do it but they don't work! I can run the app
by double clicking it, but I can't make it appear in the menu. ??

Right click on the destop and choose create new launcher here... This will
give you the desktop file.
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Gordon wrote:

On 2025-12-15, Felix <none@not.here> wrote:

I'm trying to get this app to appear in the menu..

/home/peter/LINUX/Packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

I've tried EVERY method to do it but they don't work! I can run the app
by double clicking it, but I can't make it appear in the menu. ??

Right click on the destop and choose create new launcher here... This will give you the desktop file.

I had tried that, but even tho LM says it will create a menu item, it
doesn't. viz:-a https://auslink.info/linux/launcher.png

also, this method doesn't work either ..
https://auslink.info/linux/menu2.png

??
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:14:52 +1100, Felix wrote:

I had tried that, but even tho LM says it will create a menu item, it doesn't.

Does the package include a .desktop file?
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On Mon, 12/22/2025 12:22 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:14:52 +1100, Felix wrote:

I had tried that, but even tho LM says it will create a menu item, it
doesn't.

Does the package include a .desktop file?

Look upthread.

The OP appears to be on LMDE7. An older version of czkawka
is in Synaptic already, it uses a .deb, the .deb includes the .desktop
in /usr/share/applications (the system desktop file store).

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https://i.postimg.cc/3w96CMVC/LMDE7-czkawka-desktop-file.gif

The OP is now using a more recent version of czkawka (Version 10), which is delivered as an ELF portable (a single file, not a tarball or anything).

linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64 <=== a 50MB executable kind of thing

This will need a .desktop crafted and stored in the "personal" homedir.

It requires using the tool to create a menu item, but putting the proper location in the TryExec.

*******

The example in the github developer tree, is shown here.
czkawka-master.zip is the source you get from Github under the <Code> icon.

czkawka-master/data/com.github.qarmin.czkawka.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=czkawka_gui
Name=Czkawka
Name[it]=Singhiozzo
Comment=Multi functional app to clean OS which allow to find duplicates, empty folders, similar files etc.
Comment[it]=Programma multifunzionale per pulire il sistema, che permette di trovare file duplicati, cartelle vuote, file simili, ecc...
Comment[zh_CN]=oA>to?E|Au+atEauucE+|oe>uL4pCUt-|uucE+|on|pCUtc+E++uucE+|t!etUat|+t+fu+atEao+Noa+
Comment[zh_TW]=oA>to?uu+u+atEaoci*ncu-ouiepCUt-|*|cuuOon+pCUtc+E++u-ouiet!etUat|+t|#u+atEao+Noa+
Icon=com.github.qarmin.czkawka
Categories=System;FileTools Keywords=Hiccup;duplicate;same;similar;cleaner;copy;copies;compare;files; StartupWMClass=czkawka_gui
TryExec=czkawka_gui

Whereas the OP is using the portable ELF downloaded from the site

linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64

The Name for this one, might need to be set to "Czkawka10"
to make it easier to see in the menu.

Felix needs to copy/paste the contents of this new file he has created, so we can look at it.
It's hard to say what the filename will be, but it will have the word "czkawka" in it. A launcher with a name of "Czkawka10" could be crafted from the
Menu thing, to help distinguish the two launchers from one another.
The Synaptic "czkawka" is already in the menu, but Felix has the
portable ELF version (version 10) to play with and that needs
a separate and unique launcher, to keep the two separated.
Once a "czkawka10" launcher is made, this one can be removed (because
it will attempt to override the one in /usr/share/applications).

/home/peter/.local/share/applications/czkawka.desktop ???

These would be examples of fields I might put in the launcher.

Name=Czkawka10

TryExec=/home/peter/LINUX/packages/linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64 <=== pointer to large ELF portable

The linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64 is set via chmod 755 linux_czkawka_gui_x86_64 .

Paul
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:29:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

The OP is now using a more recent version of czkawka (Version 10),
which is delivered as an ELF portable (a single file, not a tarball
or anything).

Not advisable for noobs. Noobs should stick to standard packaging.
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On Mon, 12/22/2025 4:13 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:29:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

The OP is now using a more recent version of czkawka (Version 10),
which is delivered as an ELF portable (a single file, not a tarball
or anything).

Not advisable for noobs. Noobs should stick to standard packaging.

This is a bug fix for the "small image" problem in the .deb one.

Paul
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Paul wrote:

On Mon, 12/22/2025 4:13 PM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:29:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

The OP is now using a more recent version of czkawka (Version 10),
which is delivered as an ELF portable (a single file, not a tarball
or anything).

Not advisable for noobs. Noobs should stick to standard packaging.

This is a bug fix for the "small image" problem in the .deb one.

yes. I just saw your post on how to fix it. I need to study that.

Paul

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