Start btop or htop from menu.

[krister-dahl]

How come that either htop or btop starts from the shortcuts in the menu. It works from the terminal but not from the menu. I checked the .desktop files and they seem ok but no luck?

[MatiwRC18]

The issue is that TUI applications like btop and htop require a terminal emulator
to run. When launched from the menu, there's no terminal context.

In your .desktop file, make sure you have:

Terminal=true

Or if that doesn't work with your setup, explicitly call your terminal emulator:

Exec=foot btop

Replace foot with whatever terminal you use (kitty, alacritty, etc):

Exec=kitty -e btop
Exec=alacritty -e btop

Also make sure the .desktop file is in ~/.local/share/applications/
and run update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/ after any changes.

[krister-dahl]

Thanks Mariw for your answer. I had my .desktop shortcuts in /usr/share/applications. Exec=foot btop and Terminal=false fixed the problem 😃