# Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 designerlauncher.desktop Issue Launching

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 27, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-20-10-designerlauncher-desktop-issue-launching/43898 "2021-02-27T01:11:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![adellaci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@adellaci](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adellaci)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-20-10-designerlauncher-desktop-issue-launching/43898/1 "2021-02-27T01:11:55Z")

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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.2 LTS  
Linux 5.8.0-44-generic  
Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)  
mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.25-MariaDB

This is just a work around to continue the course for those that are having the same issue. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this correctly.

I was unable to get Designer Launcher to start from ‘designerlauncher.desktop’. It maybe am not setting it up right.  
I did do some research and discovered a application that check the syntax of .desktop. It came back with many errors. I tried to correct the issue unsuccessfully, but did get it down to three errors.  
Then i attempted to start it by going to the directory where ‘designerlauncher.sh’ exist and issue the command;

```auto
sh ./designerlauncher.sh

```

Designer Launcher started up but i got one warning/error, but seem to operate okay

```auto
./designerlauncher.sh: 4: Bad substitution

```

Right, wrong, or indifferent, i modified the designerlauncher.desktop as follows;

```auto
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Icon=/home/%user/ignition/designerlauncher/app/launcher.png
Name=Designer Launcher
Exec=java -jar /home/%user/ignition/designerlauncher/app/launcher-designer-linux.jar
Path=./

```

‘My Designers’ comes up and appear to work. I created a test project and start it and that seem to start correctly. But when i went to ‘My Designer’ and create a shortcut for the project, it writes the path incorrectly. If i correct the path the short cut works, and ‘Ignition Designer’ opens up, but does not open project without me clicking on it

```auto
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/%user/.ignition/clientlauncher-data/DesignerIcon.png
Name=Ignition-Linux-Windows-2
Exec=sh -c '"/home/%user/ignition/designerlauncher/app/designerlauncher.sh" -Dapp.home=/home/%user/.ignition/clientlauncher-data -Dapplication=Ignition-Linux-Windows-2 &'

```

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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-20-10-designerlauncher-desktop-issue-launching/43898/2 "2021-02-27T15:32:35Z")

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Not sure if this is relevant (I haven’t had enough caffeine yet), but have you seen my take on this topic?  
[Best practices for 8.1 Designer Launcher install on Linux?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-practices-for-8-1-designer-launcher-install-on-linux/40302)