Invalid .desktop file is created if path contains spaces on Linux about node-auto-launch HOT 6 OPEN

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Im having the same problem. Manually launching the .desktop file i get the error: There was an error launching the application.
If anyone runs into this as well, you can go to /home/{yourName}/.config/autostart/ and open the .desktop file. it should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=appName
Comment=appNamestartup script
Exec=/opt/Some Name/appName
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

you need to change this to:

Exec= "/opt/Some Name/appName"

this is especially sad for NW.js / electron since:
"options.path - String (optional for NW.js and Electron apps)"
~ https://github.com/Teamwork/node-auto-launch/blob/master/README.md

Hope that this helped someone and that this gets fixed soon (because you cant tell everyone installing you app to modify files)

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As the originals developers of the package is not maintaining this project anymore, I replicated and will be taking over, if you could take a look at it I'll be happy. This issue is already solved in my version of the project.

https://github.com/Izurii/easy-auto-launch

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Can you use auto-launch on Linux successfully? I cannot work it on linux

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For those looking for a work around that allows you to still use the library:
You explicitly pass in a path if it is an AppImage, and add a back slash before any space characters (which escapes it).

  let name = 'Application Name';

  let autoLauncher = new AutoLaunch(
    process.env.APPIMAGE
      ? {
          name: name,
          path: `${process.env.APPIMAGE}`.replace(/ /g, '\\ '),
        }
      : {
          name: name,
        }
  );

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