Error when opening distrobox container

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When opening a distrobox container from activities button terminal quickly opens then closes straight away.
I can open the container through boxbuddy without an issue.
I can open a container from a terminal with ‘distrobox enter’
I get an error message ‘/usr/bin/distrobox (Failed)’
I’m on Fedora Silverblue 41 beta

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Added container, distrobox, gnome-terminal, ptyxis

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This is likely an issue with how the terminal handles opening commands.

Afaik, GNOME uses ptyxis as the default terminal in GNOME 47 meaning Fedora 41?

Can you send the content of one of these entries?

cat ~/.local/share/applications/whatevername.desktop
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greg@desktop-4tesqdd:~$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/fedora.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Fedora
GenericName=Terminal entering Fedora
Comment=Terminal entering Fedora
Categories=Distrobox;System;Utility
Exec=/usr/bin/distrobox enter  fedora
Icon=/var/home/greg/.local/share/icons/distrobox/fedora.png
Keywords=distrobox;
NoDisplay=false
Terminal=true
TryExec=/usr/bin/distrobox
Type=Application

Yes I’m on Silverblue 41 beta.