Wednesday, November 16, 2016

.desktop - Java application (Minecraft) can't be launched from desktop

I'm okay with the terminal, but I'm trying to learn how to use the gnome gui.
The following command works no problem in the terminal:
/usr/bin/java -Xms2048M -Xmx4096M -jar /home/luke/.minecraft/PixelMonServer/forge-1.12.2-14.23.5.2768-universal.jar nogui




I have created a .desktop file for it and placed it in '~/Desktop' and '~/.local/share/applications'. It looks good in both places (icon displays, I can find it in Activities) but it doesn't seem to actually do anything. Nothing fires up, and 'ps -ef | grep java' shows no running java processes.



The contents of my .desktop file are below:



[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pixelmon Server
Comment=Start Pixelmon Server
Exec=/usr/bin/java -Xms2048M -Xmx4096M -jar /home/luke/.minecraft/PixelMonServer/forge-1.12.2-14.23.5.2768-universal.jar nogui
Icon=/home/luke/Pictures/pixelmon.png
Terminal=True

Type=Application
Categories=Game;



edit: I figured this out. If anyone else has a similar problem, check below.

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