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I'm not able to create desktop/Unity short cut for web applications using Chromium/Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.



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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.



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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**



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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


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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.



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