Can't make mullvad vpn desktop shortcut

I made a lot of desktop shortcuts already, but mullvad vpn just not opens from the shortcut, does the exec value is wrong?

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mullvad VPN
Exec=/usr/bin/mullvad
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/mullvad-vpn.png
Type=Application

Is mullvad a GUI app? Or does it need to run in a Terminal?

If it needs to be in a Terminal, something like gnome-terminal -- /usr/bin/mullvad could work.


May also need a PATH set to run from (I think there’s a Desktop option for it but could also be done with bash -c

They provide a native RPM package that includes the launcher:

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