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Add Intellij launcher shortcut and icon for ubuntu
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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/rob/.intellij-13/bin/idea.png | |
| Name[en_US]=IntelliJ | |
| Exec=/home/rob/.intellij-13/bin/idea.sh | |
| Name=IntelliJ | |
| Icon=/home/rob/.intellij-13/bin/idea.png | |
| // mod permissions | |
| sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop | |
| sudo chown root:root /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop |
For info, Ubuntu 24 added a Desktop Entry by added the .desktop file to: /home/marc/.gnome/apps/jetbrains-idea-ce.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Icon=/home/marc/work/idea-IC-251.23774.435/bin/idea.svg Exec="/home/marc/work/idea-IC-251.23774.435/bin/idea" %f Comment=Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM Categories=Development;IDE; Terminal=false StartupWMClass=jetbrains-idea-ce StartupNotify=true OnlyShowIn=Old;there is a way to add an icon directly from the IDE easly
Yeah, that's what I did.
I was expecting it to go in /usr/share/applications and it didn't - so for anyone wondering what the add Desktop Entry does under the hood I was sharing here.
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there is a way to add an icon directly from the IDE easly