Invalid desktop entry file

[billyhayes]

help i thought it may have been a good idea to start putting thing on my mem stick and i ruined my python games it gives me a warning when i try to use python games [Invalid desktop entry file: '/usr/share/raspi-ui-overrides/applications/python-games.desktop']please help and thank you

[JimmyN]

Can you show us what you have in the "python-games.desktop" file? If you've been relocating things around it's probably a path error.

[hello world :-)]

help i thought it may have been a good idea to start putting thing on my mem stick and i ruined my python games it gives me a warning when i try to use python games [Invalid desktop entry file: '/usr/share/raspi-ui-overrides/applications/python-games.desktop']please help and thank you

an easy solution would be to put the python games back in their original position. otherwise, you could edit the desktop entry file to point to their new location. happy holidays

[zombiehunterpro]

This is do to a corrupted desktop configuration file or you didn't install the whole app. I did a purge to Dosbox and an executable file was left over. I tried to run it and it said that message.

[stychokiller]

WHY doesn't desktop-file-validate find ALL of the problems in a *.desktop file?
I finally got rid of this error by deleting "TryExec=/usr/local/sbin/stopBlanking.sh 0"
from the stopBlanking.desktop file desktop-file-validate NEVER flagged this line as being a problem
(linux 4.4.9-v7+ armv7l). I'm posting this in case someone else runs across this problem with desktop executable
icons.

[DougieLawson]

If you've found a bug, report it here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug. ... file-utils

[Paeryn]

WHY doesn't desktop-file-validate find ALL of the problems in a *.desktop file?
I finally got rid of this error by deleting "TryExec=/usr/local/sbin/stopBlanking.sh 0"
from the stopBlanking.desktop file desktop-file-validate NEVER flagged this line as being a problem
(linux 4.4.9-v7+ armv7l). I'm posting this in case someone else runs across this problem with desktop executable
icons.

A TryExec= line is a check to see if a program is installed, it doesn't actually execute the program named, rather it looks to see if such a program is available and is marked executable, if not then the .desktop file may be ignored. By the looks of it that line in your .desktop file was trying to pass a parameter to the program named which would be an error (it makes no sense because the program isn't being executed).