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I want to develop an app using Tkinter GUI and want to launch it from a Desktop icon. I have created the script which works from the terminal and from IDLE3 and is just a test script at present.I have made this executable with chmod +x I have made a .desktop file and put it in /usr/share/applications/ I have not made any specific permission changes to this file. I have also put it in the /home/pi/Desktop/ I have an icon on the desktop and an entry under Other in the menu. I am getting the error:

invalid desktop entry file: '/home/pi/Desktop/Gort.desktop'

from clicking on the icon and similar from the menu entry:

invalid desktop entry file: '/usr/share/applications/Gort.desktop'

This is my desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Name=Gort
   Comment= Gort Pi Status Info
   Exec=/usr/bin/python/home/pi/Gort/py
   Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/Sqeak.png
   Terminal=false
   Type=Applications
   Categories=None

Any help much appreciated.

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  • Have you tried chmod 777 ~/Desktop/Gort.desktop and then tried running it to make sure this is a permissions problem? Jan 15, 2016 at 12:58

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Ok I found the errors.

I modified this line

Exec=/usr/bin/python/home/pi/Gort/py

to

Exec=/home/pi/Gort.py #location of the file

And in the file Gort.py I modified the shebang from

#!/usr/bin/python

to

 #!/usr/bin/env python3 #the script is python3
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