I’ve been looking for a encryptation app open source, to encrypt my files into Cloud with a touch of off-online control, and I found this nice app called Cryptomator. I downloaded the extension .Appimage, so the following instruction I will explain is how to set the .appimage into the app menu in Gnome.
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Download the Cryptomator by the link above.
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Set the permission below:
#chmod a+x cryptomator-1.4.15-x86_64.AppImage
The try to execute the file by a shell terminal or just double click on it ( to confirm it was downloaded fined)
By terminal:
$./home/user/Download/cryptomator-1.4.15-x86_64.AppImage
- Then following the official documentation we can grab the sample file:
Path: /usr/share/applications/
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Sample Application Name
Comment=A sample application
Exec=application
Icon=application.png
Terminal=false
Then create the .desktop file using a text editor eg: vi, nano,etc. I rather prefer vi so
#vi /usr/share/applications/cryptomator.desktop
In my case I left my .desktop file like this:
$cat /usr/share/applications/cryptomator.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=cryptomator
Comment=Free client-side encryption for your cloud files
Exec=/usr/bin/cryptomator.AppImage
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/bin/cryptomator.png
Type=Application
Categories=Security;
Version=1.0
- Permission & Owner; over here we can set the same permission that those apps
If we do ls
$ ls -all /usr/share/applications/
We can see the following permission output:
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root xxxxxxx what does it mean ?
- User: -wr -> Means that the file is readable and writeable to user.
- Group: r– -> Means that the file is readable to group
- Other: r– -> Means that the file is readable to other.
Setting the permission:
rwx rwx rwx 110 100 100 644
# chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/cryptomator.desktop
And finally the ownership:
$sudo chown root:root /usr/share/applications/cryptomator.desktop
To end we need to add the image.png so here you can download and copy to a path you want in my case I dropped it into the same path /usr/share/applications/
enjoy. :)