Josh Simmonsdotstdy@mastodon.social
Jun 28, 2026, 1:05 AM@mcc that depends on your desktop environment. (so yes, a regular elf binary is a good way to make it more likely to work without complexity)
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Matthew Sheffieldmattsheffield@mastodon.socialJun 28, 2026, 2:33 AM@dotstdy @mcc Yes this is a Nautilus problem. They're trying to be more secure by banning direct shell script execution, but in practice this is inconvenient for some use cases, especially if you're used to a Windows style way of distributing programs.
Dolphin and some other file managers don't have this problem.
Probably best to do an ELF executable. It is an oversight that ELF defines no embedded icon though.