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How to create an icon for my application on Ubuntu?
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:41 pm
by marcoagpinto
Hello!!!!
How do I associate an icon to my application to appear on the left side of the screen instead of a "?" icon?
Thanks!
Kind regards,
>Marco A.G.Pinto
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Re: How to create an icon for my application on Ubuntu?
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:04 pm
by ts-soft
You have to create a starter (simple textfile):
example:
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[Desktop Entry]
Name=MyAPP
Exec=/home/marcoagpinto/MyAPPDIR/MyAPP
MimeType=
Icon=/home/marcoagpinto/MyAPPDIR/MyAPP.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GTK;GNOME;Application;
Comment=
change the settings to your application
save this for example as: MyAPP.desktop in: ~/.local/share/applications/
Set the executable flag on this file.
Type in a terminal:
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update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
Now, you found your application in dash and can start it, it should shown on the left side with icon
Greetings - Thomas
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or have a look here:
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/application ... -launcher/
not tested by my, i doesn't use ubuntu (bad
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