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How do I add a custom launcher?

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I started by searching guides. I found this guide but neither of the main methods works anymore in 11.10.

The first solution, I have created the desktop file, however the file location given as .gconf-> desktop-> unity-> launcher -> favourites
no longer exists. I can get to /home/sayth/.gconf/desktop but there is no longer a unity folder.

The second solution described right-clicking the desktop and creating a launcher. Right-clicking the desktop no longer produces a "create a launcher" option.

I manually installed geany 0.21 as the one in the repo's is outdated. It's installed and working correctly, and is executing from /usr/local/bin/geany.

How can I add it to the launcher?

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answered 2 Years ago unsmmoth · Accepted Answer

First thing I'd do is navigate to /usr/local/share/applications & see if there is a geany.desktop

If so then just drag onto the launcher.

If not then would just a minute or so to set up. Your source has a 'geany.desktop.in', remove the .in & it's a perfectly good geany.desktop

Edit: the geany.desktop.in is a good template for your .desktop but needs some minor editing before copying or after. Lines 4,5,6 start with a _ that should be removed.

Ex. of edited geany.desktop (or edited geany.desktop.in

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Version=1.0

Name=Geany

GenericName=Integrated Development Environment

Comment=A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2

Exec=geany %F

Icon=geany

Terminal=false

Categories=GTK;Development;IDE;

MimeType=text/plain;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-java;text/x-dsrc;text/x-pascal;text/x-perl;text/x-python;application/x-php;application/x-httpd-php3;application/x-httpd-php4;application/x-httpd-php5;application/xml;text/html;text/css;text/x-sql;text/x-diff;

StartupNotify=true

The source also has some geany icons in it, take the geany.png from geany-0.21/icons/48x48 & put somewhere like Pictures or Documents
Then copy the geany.desktop.in file sitting in the source folder to ~/.local/share/applications/geany.desktop

Ex. - if it was in Downloads/geany-0.21

cp Downloads/geany-0.21/geany.desktop.in  ~/.local/share/applications/geany.desktop

Then just go there,

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications

right click on geany .desktop > properties > click on the icon area & browse to your geany.png > open

Finally drag geany.desktop onto your launcher

Edit:
one advantage you'll see with a more 'proper' .desktop is it has a MimeTypes= line. Open up the .desktop in a text editor & take a look.

You can, if you want, now drag & drop any of those mimetypes on to the geany icon in your launcher & they'll open up in geany