I refer to INSTALLATION | Tor Project | Tor Browser Manual . According to the paragraph For GNU/Linux/ Graphical method, in file manager I right-clicked start-tor-browser.desktop and chose Properties and checked Executable as program. When I double-click it, it opens as text file. How do I start Tor …

Hi, Which distro do you use? Is your “start-tor-browser.desktop” is reconized as an executable file?

Hello, [image] Cryptux: Which distro do you use? It’s Fedora. [image] Cryptux: Is your “start-tor-browser.desktop” is reconized as an executable file? [image] anon48802337: in file manager I right-clicked start-tor-browser.desktop and chose Properties and checked Executable as pr…

For me if the script is opened with the notepad, it means the OS doesn’t interpret it like a executable file. If you do a right-click on it, do you have the possibility to execute it?

IANALinuxExpert … but I do test multiple releases in linux VMs (test builds, alpha, stable, nightly … ) and the problem here is GNOME made changes in Nautilus we need to update that tor doc, and/or find a better way for users to launch the app - meanwhile you can run it via the terminal, or what I …

I opened update docs and/or do something about launching app on GNOME/Nautilus (#42379) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab

When I right-click, there’s a Execute as Application option. When I pick that, a window pops up for half a sec. or so and disappears. Can’t see or read what’s in that window. Nothing more occurs. Tor Browser isn’t launched.

here’s what “works” for me in debian - find the executable in the Browser directory and right click that - mine says Run as a Program apparently this a bad idea, but it’s the only thing that works for ME on my VM (and I’m just testing, not using) [example]

@thorin [image] thorin: I opened update docs and/or do something about launching app on GNOME/Nautilus (#42379) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab Can someone post here if docs are updated and/or launching from GNOME file manager works again?

Please use the start-tor-browser executable rather than firefox. firefox is lacking the preparation of the environment as we do it in start-tor-browser. Maybe we should just unify the two scripts (the reason for having two is that it was needed for the updater in systems that ships an older libstd…

closed my issue as a duplicate - the original issue is start-tor-browser.desktop hack will soon stop working (#21939) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab

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Can someone post here if docs are updated and/or launching from GNOME file manager works again?