I’ve used Ubuntu for a few years now… one thing that’s never worked for me was the “Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop” icon that theoretically should prompt me for a password to allow access to an attached drive. The best that happens is that it loads a terminal window which closes soon after. I’m not looking for a terminal command alternative, I want to get this working, thanks!
Just a guess since I don’t use that function, is that the command prompt comes up as a batch file being executed, or binary and its looking for a client thats not there, or a dependency thats not met. It closes out shortly there after, either because the client has been loaded or its simply not there.
Ubuntu forums might be a better place to look
Declan
Try using a text editor to open the file and check out the contents. It should have an obviously line that means it’s trying to execute something, so try executing it yourself in the terminal and see what happens.
Personally, I’ve never used anything like that, but I also don’t in any way like the new Ubuntu and haven’t used it.
Also, if someone can give you a command line that would do the same thing, all you’d have to do it turn that into a new .desktop file.
It’s been a while since I used vanilla Ubuntu but IIRC this script is supposed to run a utility which displays the decryption key for your home folder. You would have selected “encrypt home folder” when you installed the operating system; with the key that this utility displays, you can access your private data even if you lose your main account password.
Unfortunately the script is so poorly written that it doesn’t actually run successfully from the desktop link. If you read the script and determine what commands it calls, you can enter them from a terminal and see the output directly.