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Intellij Idea not showing up in apps and cannot add it to Favorites

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I am running Ubuntu 20.04 quite recently upgraded from 18.04.

I have desktop entry for Intellij Idea (manually installed in /opt/) from which I can launch it but for some reason it is not show in Apps list and also I am unable to pin it to the favorites.

Here is the content of the .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

Icon=/opt/idea-IC-202.6397.94/bin/idea.svg

Exec="/opt/idea-IC-202.6397.94/bin/idea.sh" %f

Categories=Development;IDE;

I have tried to delete, recreate the desktop entry and re-login but to no avail.

What is needed in order such manually installed product to 1. get listed in the apps list and 2. be able to pin it to Favorites?

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answered 1 Year ago cugure · Accepted Answer

Thanks to @Kulfy I found the problem: there was an old .desktop file for IntelliJ IDEA in ~/.local/share/applications which contained invalid path (pointing to old version).

After deleting it and restarting GNOME shell using Alt+F2 and ruuning restart, I was able to add it to Favorites.