I'm not able to create desktop/Unity short cut for web applications using Chromium/Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.
I'm not able to create desktop/Unity short cut for web applications using Chromium/Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.
After some research on the internet I found how to create web apps desktop short cuts for Google Chrome/Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.
1. Install the application you want from Chrome Webstore and right click on the app icon and select create desktop short-cut.
2. It will creates a desktop short-cut and it will not work on Ubuntu 12.10, we need to edit the
**chrome-applicationid here-Default.desktop like file**
3. Open the file using Gedit using this command
~$ gedit Desktop/chrome-aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj-Default.desktop
(change the file name to yours application ID)
4. It will open the Gedit text editor and you will need to change first two lines of the text
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
to
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
5. Finally save the changes and you will be noticed the change of icon in the desktop and double click on it to run.
Time for playing Angry Birds!