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How to add an icon for IntelliJ. Update the Icon and Exec to where you unzipped idea-IC-135.690.gz and installed IntelliJ.
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| // create file: | |
| sudo vim /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop | |
| // add the following | |
| [Desktop Entry] | |
| Version=13.0 | |
| Type=Application | |
| Terminal=false | |
| Icon[en_US]=/home/daniel/idea-IC-135.690/bin/idea.png | |
| Name[en_US]=IntelliJ | |
| Exec=/home/daniel/idea-IC-135.690/bin/idea.sh | |
| Name=IntelliJ | |
| Icon=/home/daniel/idea-IC-135.690/bin/idea.png | |
| // modify permissions | |
| sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop | |
| sudo chown root:root /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop | |
| // and voila! Hit Superkey and search for Intellij to view the icon. It can be locked to the launcher. |
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