mate-desktop-item-edit(1)

mate-desktop-item-edit1

A small tool to edit .desktop files.

Usage

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

Overview

Distributed with mate-panel, mate-desktop-item-edit allows you to edit .desktop files.

Options

--create-new

Create a new file in the given directory.

--display=DISPLAY

X display to use.

-?, -h, --help

Print standard command line options.

--help-all

Print all command line options.

This program also accepts the standard GTK options.

Examples

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

Open a mate-desktop-item-edit dialog to create a launcher icon on the desktop named "Icon".

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Bugs

Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:

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

Authors

This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment by:

Adam Erdman <[email protected]> (2014)

History

This manual page was originally written by Christian Marillat <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. (2006)

From mate-panel 1.28.7-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.