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I am trying to make keyboard shortcuts for common apps such as Software manager or the browser,
I go into Keyboard> shortcut keys and choose Custom, where do I find the commands to insert in the command box? Or do I have to something in the terminal?
Have tried a few times get"execution failed errors.."
Alternatively, you may also look them up in the folder /usr/share/applications/. Each installed app has a .desktop file there. It's a text file, and the line Exec= in that file contains the command to be executed.
E.g. the command for Software Manager is mintinstall.
I tried to assign keyboard shortcut to Software manager to F8
Got this error
Failed to execute child process "/usr/share/applications/mintinstall" (No such file or directory
I tried a web search for the error message you posted, and nothing came up. Absolutely zilch. As regards that error message, have you looked at the contents of /usr/share/applications/? You could do this either in a file manager or from the command line with the ls command. See man ls for more.
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