diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 262394312..aa7e013e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
 
+o [Zenmap][GH#1777] Stop creating a debugging output file 'tmp.txt' on the
+  desktop in macOS. [Roland Linder]
+
 o [Nping] Address build failure under libc++ due to "using namespace std;" in
   several headers, resulting in conflicting definitions of bind(). Reported by
   StormBytePP and Rosen Penev. [Daniel Miller]
diff --git a/zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/launcher.sh b/zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/launcher.sh
index 405e8c3cb..881c9f604 100755
--- a/zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/launcher.sh
+++ b/zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/launcher.sh
@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ if [ -z ${lang+x} ]; then
   export LANG="`echo $lang`.UTF-8"
 fi
 
-echo $LANG > ~/Desktop/tmp.txt
-echo " | " >> ~/Desktop/tmp.txt
-echo $lang >> ~/Desktop/tmp.txt
-
 if test -f "$bundle_lib/charset.alias"; then
     export CHARSETALIASDIR="$bundle_lib"
 fi