gui shortcut files of users

[Herbert-Karl]

while playing around with detecting use of linpeas, I stumbled upon desktop shortcut files (stored e. g. under ~/.local/share/RecentDocuments/ )

one example of its content:

user@system:~/.local/share/RecentDocuments$ cat linpeas_linux_amd64.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Icon=application-x-executable
Name=linpeas_linux_amd64
Type=Link
URL[$e]=file:$HOME/Downloads/linpeas_linux_amd64
X-KDE-LastOpenedWith=

(file downloaded via browser and Download folder opened via Browser popup)

I didn't directly find much documentation on them, but they seem to be a kind of shortcut and standardizes by freedesktop / XDG ( https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html ).

They are bound to the system being used with a (modern) GUI.
I stumbled on it, because one of the files pointed me to a linpeas binary which I had downloaded via browser.
They appear to be removed when the file that its pointing to does not exist anymore.

[tclahr]

Good catch. Thanks!