[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49609] Ctrl+C crashes Octave and the Desktop

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #49609 (project octave):

In response to your side notes

* the .desktop file is installed to ${prefix}/share/applications on 'make
install', which is the correct place to install it
* the Icon directive is also correct, as it uses the short name of the icon,
which the desktop environment looks for in a pre-defined icon search path

If you install with prefix=/usr, everything works as expected.

If you install to some other location like /opt (which I also do), then you
will need to manually copy ${prefix}/share/applications to
~/.local/share/applications, and ${prefix}/share/icons to
~/.local/share/icons. Or possibly set the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable
to something like


XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/octave/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share


In short, the desktop and icon files are being built and installed correctly,
you just may have to go through extra steps to register these files to the
desktop system if you are not installing as root to prefix=/usr.

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