# The icon doesn't open joplin

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [30 March 2020 00:25 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495 "2020-03-30T00:25:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![itasahobby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c4cdca/32.png) [@itasahobby](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/itasahobby)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2020 00:25 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495/1 "2020-03-30T00:25:41Z")

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Hello,  
I used the script it’s given in the home page:

```auto
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/master/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash

```

I got this output from the installation process:

```auto
--2020-03-30 02:15:53-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/master/Joplin_install_and_update.sh
Resolviendo raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.132.133
Conectando con raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)[151.101.132.133]:443... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
Longitud: 7516 (7,3K) [text/plain]
Grabando a: “STDOUT”

- 100%[===================>] 7,34K --.-KB/s en 0,004s  

2020-03-30 02:15:53 (1,98 MB/s) - escritos a stdout [7516/7516]

     _ _ _       
    | | ______ | (_)_ __  
 _ | |/ _ \| '_ \| | | '_ \ 
| |_| | (_) | |_) | | | | | |
 \ ___/ \___ /| .__/|_|_|_| |_|
            |_|

Linux Installer and Updater

Checking architecture...
Checking latest version...
The latest version is 1.0.195, but you have no version installed.
Downloading Joplin...
/tmp/tmp.y1Xwnx0Xta 100%[===================>] 105,67M 4,59MB/s en 21s     
/tmp/tmp.y1Xwnx0Xta 100%[===================>] 22,45K --.-KB/s en 0,02s   
Installing Joplin...
OK
Installing icon...
OK
Create Desktop icon...
OK
Joplin version 1.0.195 installed.
Cleaning up...

```

I’m using Debian 10 with Gnome 3.6.2 . The icon is in the app list but when I click nothing happens.

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**Author:** ![bedwardly-down](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/bedwardly-down/32/3236_2.png) [@bedwardly-down](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bedwardly-down)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2020 13:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495/2 "2020-03-30T13:13:08Z")

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This is due to the Debian kernel having a non standard kernel patch breaking how AppImages work with Electron Apps. Try the `—no-sandbox` flag from this post.

> [@Unable to start 1.0.179 (on Linux)](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/unable-to-start-1-0-179-on-linux/5373/3):
>
> I can’t make sense of all these posts. Do you know if there’s a solution for AppImage that we can implement in all this? Ideally some config option we can set, because advanced packaging like wrapping the executable as some users suggest I can’t do.

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2020 13:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495/3 "2020-03-30T13:47:33Z")

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Hmm, when to come to think of it, maybe we could add the flag to the icon on Debian based systems.

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**Author:** ![bedwardly-down](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/bedwardly-down/32/3236_2.png) [@bedwardly-down](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bedwardly-down)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2020 14:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/the-icon-doesnt-open-joplin/7495/4 "2020-03-30T14:02:04Z")

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The `.desktop` shortcut is just a text file iirc and should be easily addable. Good idea