MATE-DESKTOP-ITEM-EDIT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

mate-desktop-item-edit — a tiny lil tool whose whole job is editing .desktop files, and bestie it slays at it ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mate-desktop-item-edit [OPTIONS] [FILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. mate-desktop-item-edit ships with mate-panel, and its entire vibe is letting you edit .desktop files. that's it. that's the gig. no cap 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --create-new — makes a brand new file in the directory you gave it 🎀
• --display=DISPLAY — tells it which X display to use 🖥️
• -?, -h, --help — prints the standard command line options, iykyk 🙈
• --help-all — prints all the command line options, the whole menu, no secrets 👑

also, this program accepts the standard GTK options too, so go off 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

mate-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop/Icon.desktop

this opens a mate-desktop-item-edit dialog so you can create a launcher icon on the desktop, and that icon is named "Icon" 💖 literally that simple.

💀 BUGS 💀

so should you encounter any bugs (rude of them, honestly), they may be reported at:

http://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues

👑 AUTHORS 👑

this man page was updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment by:

• Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014) 🎀

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

this manual page was originally written by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. (2006) — a true OG fr fr ⭐

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

further information may also be available at:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs

MATE Desktop Environment · 4 February 2014 · MATE-DESKTOP-ITEM-EDIT(1)

and that's the whole page bestie, go edit some .desktop files and eat 💅✨🌸