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LinuxRich
Jul 29, 2021Copper Contributor
Using desktop application files with Edge. (Linux desktop.)
Yesterday I had a play about with my Peppermint OS machine that I'd installed Edge on. Now Peppermint OS has a tool called ICE that lets you easily create Site Specific Browser instances. Essentially a web based application. Obviously, this tool doesn't yet cater for Edge. But, I thought I'd test if it worked. So, I created a desktop file for www.office.com initially based on Google Chrome. I then manually edited the created file to use Edge instead. It works perfectly. Here's the resultant file.
rich@mirage:~/.local/share/applications$ more msoffice.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=MS Office
Comment=MS Office (Ice SSB)
Exec=microsoft-edge --app=https://www.office.com --class=ICE-SSB-msoffice
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/rich/.local/share/ice/msoffice.ico
Categories=GTK;Office;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;
StartupWMClass=ICE-SSB-msoffice
StartupNotify=true
Path=
Hope someone finds this interesting/useful.
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