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add application luncher in gnome 3
Gnome 3
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to add shortcut application to gnome luncher
for ur account:
add the file: ~/.local/share/applications/Your_app.desktop
and past:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=false
Exec=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse
Name=Eclipse Comment=Launcher for Eclipse
Icon=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse.svg (better the png one)
for all users
add the files to: /usr/share/applications
and the icon must be in: /usr/share/icons
exp: Icon=My-app (with no extention)
or use some extentions in: https://extensions.gnome.org/
exp: gnome-shell-extensions
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