Postman desktop entry

postman.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Development;
Comment=Supercharge your API workflow
Exec="/home/hauthorn/Programs/Postman/Postman"
Icon=/home/hauthorn/Programs/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Name=Postman
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Version=1.0

update.md

Update in 2024: You'll probably want to install via Snap, now that it's available and working fairly well.

I'm using version 6.7.4, the icon path changed to
/opt/Postman-linux-x64-6.7.4/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

Or use alacarte package and add a new element with the following parameters:
name: Postman
command: /opt/Postman/Postman
icon: /opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

where to put this file?

where to put this file?

You can add this to ~/.local/share/applications if you are using Ubuntu @Ajithkumarsekar

The Complete Process with Latest Postman

1. Check where your postman is installed, in my case it was /opt/Postman
2. Create a postman.desktop file anywhere. touch postman.desktop

Paste the Following into that file (Adjust paths according to directory where your Postman is installed )

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=Postman
Comment=Supercharge your API workflow
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Exec="/opt/Postman/Postman"
Terminal=false

Copy this file to /home/.local/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications

Thanks!

root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home/mouhamedsonko/Bureau# cp postman.desktop /home/.local/share/applications
cp: impossible de créer le fichier standard '/home/.local/share/applications': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home/mouhamedsonko/Bureau# cd /home
root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home# ls
hero mouhamedsonko
root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home# ls -a
. .. hero mouhamedsonko
root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home# cd .local
bash: cd: .local: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
root@mouhamedsonko-HP-ProBook-4540s:/home#

@Msonko07 you want to make sure the folder exists first. Are you using ubuntu?

I'm surprised it's not there, but maybe you are using a different distribution with a different folder structure.

You can try mkdir -p /home/.local/share/applications to create the folder, but I don't think that going to help much if you are using some other linux distribution.

Thanks @JochemKuijpers

thanks for sharing. now, I can pin my postman on sidebar as favorite on my os-ubuntu.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=/opt/Postman/app/Postman %U
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

Hi @rodentskie Could you elaborate? What does the %U flag do?

Hi @rodentskie Could you elaborate? What does the %U flag do?

Please refer to this link.

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You'll probably want to install via Snap, now that it's available and working fairly well.

thanks