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I created many personal desktop files in my system, on debian

When I moved an installed desktop files from /usr/share/applications to other directory. The entry is gone from the menu application of the Gnome desktop and that's is normal.

When I restored the desktop file in the /usr/share/applications the entry appears automatically. That's great too.

Today I created a new desktop file that didn't show itself. So I copied a working desktop file with a new name with few modification inside and nothing coming out. I used these comand :

 killall gnome-panel 

and

xdg-desktop-menu install  xterm_ampere.desktop 
xdg-desktop-menu: filename 'xterm_ampere.desktop' does not have a proper vendor prefix
A vendor prefix consists of alpha characters ([a-zA-Z]) and is terminated
with a dash ("-"). An example filename is 'example-xterm_ampere.desktop'
Use --novendor to override or 'xdg-desktop-menu --manual' for additional info.

did'nt have any effect.

Thanks for your help

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There was a permission problem. I did a sudo chmod 744 on the file and the link showing itself in the menu bar.

Thanks

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