diff --git a/misc/qubes-desktop-run b/misc/qubes-desktop-run
index 89df349..61de3ee 100755
--- a/misc/qubes-desktop-run
+++ b/misc/qubes-desktop-run
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 
 from qubesagent.xdg import launch
 import sys
diff --git a/misc/qubes-session-autostart b/misc/qubes-session-autostart
index 04a8de3..7c117a8 100644
--- a/misc/qubes-session-autostart
+++ b/misc/qubes-session-autostart
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # The Qubes OS Project, http://www.qubes-os.org
diff --git a/misc/qvm-features-request b/misc/qvm-features-request
index 9fcc61b..52964d0 100755
--- a/misc/qvm-features-request
+++ b/misc/qvm-features-request
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8
 
 #
diff --git a/misc/yum-qubes-hooks.py b/misc/yum-qubes-hooks.py
index 3224a42..794311b 100644
--- a/misc/yum-qubes-hooks.py
+++ b/misc/yum-qubes-hooks.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 #
 # The Qubes OS Project, http://www.qubes-os.org
 #
diff --git a/qubes-rpc/qrun-in-vm b/qubes-rpc/qrun-in-vm
index 2f04ed2..266f621 100755
--- a/qubes-rpc/qrun-in-vm
+++ b/qubes-rpc/qrun-in-vm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 # Send the command to the remote side, and then transfer stdin from local to
 # remote and stdout from remote to local.
 #
diff --git a/qubes-rpc/xdg-icon b/qubes-rpc/xdg-icon
index 5a981fa..a6a81b5 100755
--- a/qubes-rpc/xdg-icon
+++ b/qubes-rpc/xdg-icon
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python2
 import xdg.IconTheme
 import sys
 import os
diff --git a/qubesagent/xdg.py b/qubesagent/xdg.py
index 744950d..8b57411 100755
--- a/qubesagent/xdg.py
+++ b/qubesagent/xdg.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-
 from gi.repository import Gio  # pylint: disable=import-error
 from gi.repository import GLib  # pylint: disable=import-error
 import sys