How to start GIMP AppImage on menu ?

[Stephen Liu]

(02-03-2023, 09:59 AM)rich2005 Wrote: First a check. Is the appimage file executable.

Yes, it is executable

Quote:Main Menu as shown by PixLab is an application called Alacarte which I do not think is installed by default in a ubuntu 22.04  It is a menu modification utility for customising your ubuntu menu and can make entries as well - .desktop files.

$ apt policy alacarte

Code:

alacarte:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.44.1-1
  Version table:
     3.44.1-1 500
        500 http://hk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://hk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages

Shall I install this application ?  Thanks

Quote:Your basic .desktop file probably need a categories entry to put Gimp into the ubuntu menu structure although it should work without it.

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GIMP
Type=Application
Exec=/home/satimis/Videos/GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.22-x86_64.AppImage
Icon=/home/satimis/Pictures/gimpicon.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Graphics

What shall I add?  Thanks

Performed following test:
On Terminal run;
1)
$ .local/share/applications/gimp.desktop

Code:

.local/share/applications/gimp.desktop: line 1: [Desktop: command not found

2)
$ sudo nano .local/share/applications/gimp.desktop
comment out following line (line 1)
#[Desktop Entry]

3)
Again
$ .local/share/applications/gimp.desktop
This time no warning pop

4) continue
$ /home/satimis/Videos/GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.22-x86_64.AppImage

Code:

......
......
(gimp.bin:11160): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:29:00.124: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
Gtk-Message: 20:29:00.136: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
/tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/bin/gimp.bin: Gimp-Widgets-WARNING: parse_iso_codes: error parsing '/tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_639.xml': No such file or directory

is_external_process: bundled process found: /tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee
is_external_process: bundled process found: /tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-darktable/file-darktable
is_external_process: bundled process found: /tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-rawtherapee/file-rawtherapee
is_external_process: bundled process found: /tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-darktable/file-darktable
is_external_process: bundled process found: /tmp/.mount_GIMP_AOZaGWt/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu/script-fu
gimp_check_updates_callback: loading of https://www.gimp.org/gimp_versions.json failed: Operation not supported

GIMP starts finally.

But I can't add GIMP icon on favorites.  Also it is NOT the icon on; Icon=/home/satimis/Pictures/gimpicon.png

The icon is gimp.bin

Please advise how to fix the problem. Thanks

Besides this is NOT my first time installing the application on its AppImage.  I have installed several applications on their AppImages in the past.

AvideMux and ShotCut are running on another drive in this PC.  Unfortnately I forgot the steps.  Neither I can find their documents on the database of the PC.

Other advice noted and thanks

Regards