Problems creating desktop shortcut to Tkinter script

Question

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.

• Patrick Cook: Have you tried chmod 777 ~/Desktop/Gort.desktop and then tried running it to make sure this is a permissions problem?

Answer 1

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