Linux app icon disappeared with Chrome OS 76.0.3809.102 update

[Mel]

My Pixelbook updated to Chrome OS Version 76.0.3809.102 this evening and after rebooting, my Thunderbird email icon has disappeared from the panel and the launcher menu.  Could someone help me get it back, please?

[Kenneth Moerscher]

I just noticed Thunderbird and few other Linux apps vanished.

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 02:33, Mel <lnx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My Pixelbook updated to Chrome OS Version 76.0.3809.102 this evening and after rebooting, my Thunderbird email icon has disappeared from the panel and the launcher menu. Could someone help me get it back, please?

Is the desktop entry still at its place, likely /usr/share/applications ?


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Andrea

[Mel]

I couldn't find a desktop entry for it but I also don't seem to have a /usr/share/applications folder. I did still have the hidden .thunderbird folder but there wasn't a desktop file in that. I couldn't go without my email for this long so I just went ahead and installed it again. 

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 00:54, Mel <lnx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I couldn't find a desktop entry for it but I also don't seem to have a /usr/share/applications folder.

That's a bit odd.

> I did still have the hidden .thunderbird folder but there wasn't a desktop file in that.

The system wouldn't know about a desktop entry there though, I know
for sure the CrOS shelf will look into system-wide locations like
/usr/share/applications and in user directory like
~/.local/share/applications per XDG specs. I use the latter to shadow
system desktop entries when for example I want to scale the UI with
sommelier.

> I couldn't go without my email for this long so I just went ahead and installed it again.

Web UI?


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Andrea

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 11:24, Kenneth Moerscher
<kenneth....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found two other Linux apps that vanished after the update; Audex, a CD ripper; soundkonverter, for converting media files.

By vanished do you mean the APT package has been uninstalled or only
the desktop entry got lost?

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Andrea

[Mel]

Is there some place online that I can see what the Linux file structure should look like on a Chromebook? I don't know much about it but I don't have the folders I'm used to seeing under Linux. There is no /usr folder at all. And no, a web UI isn't suitable when you have 4 email addresses to check. Much too clunky and slow to have to log in to each one. And Gmail doesn't support my addresses except for the gmail one, of course.

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 15:33, Mel <lnx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some place online that I can see what the Linux file structure should look like on a Chromebook? I don't know much about it but I don't have the folders I'm used to seeing under Linux.

I'd say the container is just a Debian system, so hier(7).

> There is no /usr folder at all.

I find that very strange, are we talking Crostini here as I assumed?
If so can you paste the output of `ls /usr`?

> And no, a web UI isn't suitable when you have 4 email addresses to check. Much too clunky and slow to have to log in to each one. And Gmail doesn't support my addresses except for the gmail one, of course.

This is off topic but there are for sure way to handle that.


Side note: every time I send an email to the mailing list I get a
reply from Service Desk <ji...@littlebearz.atlassian.net>, does this
happen to someone else as well?


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Andrea

[Nom De Plume]

Even without the icon (assuming it doesn't show up in the app search bar), you should be able to launch the Terminal app and then launch thunderbird (or any installed GUI app) from the command line. 

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[Mel]

Yes, Crostini, if that is the built in way to access Linux on a chromebook.  ls /usr gave me

bin    include  lib64  sbin   src

games  lib      local  share

so I guess it IS what I'm used to seeing in Linux only I can't see any of that with the file manager on the chromebook. There's just a Linux folder and inside that only Desktop and the hidden folders. Is there a way to access the Linux file system with the file manager? I don't want to use the terminal for everything. My memory isn't up to it.

[Mel]

I did try launching it from the command line but it did nothing. After reinstalling it, I can launch it that way.