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How do you create a custom application launcher in Gnome Shell?



I have a local Eclipse installation that I'd like to be to quickly launch. So I created a symlink to the eclipse binary and placed it on my desktop. If I open a terminal, cd to ~/Desktop and run ./eclipse it starts Eclipse perfectly. However, if I click the Eclipse icon on my desktop, and choose run, nothing happens.



Alternatively, I wouldn't mind being able to search for Eclipse on the "Activities" screen, but I can't find any documentation on adding or registering custom applications.


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Try to create a eclipse.desktop file under /usr/share/applications (or ~/.local/share/applications or directly in ~/Desktop) with the following content:



[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=Eclipse IDE

Exec=/path/to/eclipse/executable

Icon=/path/to/eclipse/icon

Type=Application

Categories=Development;


You can choose another category, too. For additional information:




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