Application launchers in '/usr/share/applications' not working in Nautilus

.desktop icons nautilus

Solution 1:

You are welcome to new brave world of modern GNOME Shell "desktop".

It is a bug 1819375 caused by upstream Nautilus simplification.

You have to use other fully-functional modern file-managers like Caja, Dolphin, Konqueror, Nemo, PCManFM or Thunar.

If you want to get normal fully-integrated non-surprising desktop back - remove GNOME Shell and install other normal desktop. You may want to follow my Q&A to do so. My recommendation is to install MATE DE instead.

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