In fedora 17 when an application is running, you can pin it to the favourites bar (left side by default), this menu item is no longer available after I did the upgraded to fedora 18, the running applications appears in the favourite bar but I can't add them, The option to remove them is available however.
1-first, you must create a "desktop" file in this path: /usr/share/applications
for example : touch /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
2-open the file with an editor like vim
vim /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
then write this parameters in the file:(for example I want to add Eclipse launcher)
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Eclipse
Comment= "write your comment"
Icon=the icon path ,something like /opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Exec=the execution command ,something like /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Terminal=false
Categories=write categories like : Development;IDE;Java;
then save the changes.
3-now you must add execution permission to the file using this command :
chmod +x /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
then ,this application is been added to Application bar and you can add it to favorites bar.
Amazing just did it for ipython notebook, had to include also an alias in /etc/profile.d.
The .desktop does not have to be created in /usr but can reside in your $HOME too. Also, it doesn't need to be executable. See also Desktop files: putting your application in the desktop menus
In Fedora 19, you also have to do:
# desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/yourapp.desktop
in order to validate and integrate the icon in the menus, and also the part with the executable flag is not necessary
Asked: 2013-04-10 09:15:11 -0500
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Last updated: Apr 18 '14
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