First you need to install gnome-panel package using the following command from your terminal
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
Create new launcher
Open the terminal and run the following command
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
This will open create laucher dialog box here you can give a suitable name for the launcher.In the Command field , type in the command to launch the application Then, click OK to create the desktop launcher.
Example
We will create nautilus launcher open the terminal and run the following command
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
This will open create laucher dialog box here you can give a suitable name for the launcher and in the command field enter nautilus and click ok
You can see it will create shortcut on desktop
If you want to add to launcher just Drag it on to launcher
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Well, I wont jump on the bandwaggon and complain, but how can I add to launcher and not have on desktop as well? If I add to launcher and remove from desktop, it also deletes from launcher.
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htunca Reply:
January 20th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
move the launcher file from the ~/Desktop folder to some other folder. Then use nautilus, open the folder you put the launcher file in, drag and drop it onto the launcher.
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Thanks for the post on creating a shortcut. I previously had a shortcut on the desktop for Eclipse. I moved Eclipse, and could not alter the location, so I used your instructions and created a new shortcut. It does not however show the Eclipse icon which the previous shortcut did show. Can this be done (show icon)?
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papa Reply:
January 22nd, 2012 at 9:10 pm
if you click icon in the create launcher, it allows you to enter or browse to your icon file
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Cool
Exactly what I needed.
Just one little thing. When I launch the shell script that strats the application it creates a second icon in the launcher. When the app closes it disappears again.
Can I avoid this?
Cheers,
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BrianMCollins Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Yea, me too – at least with Eclipse.
If there is an answer for this, I’d really like to hear it!
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Why would they delete this feature anyway?? This kind of annoying
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Why is Ubuntu choosing to go backwards by removing this deature?
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I can’t get this to work:
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new
I get:
file:///home/stefan/Desktop does not have a .desktop or .directory suffix
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luckyme and Brendan:
It’s upstream (GNOME) rather than Ubuntu (or Debian).
Sadly, they really do believe that removing the ability to do things such as this is being faithful to the purity of their new desktop paradigm.
Only when their corporate masters (Red Hat) think otherwise will this change.
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You’re retarded. Why would I want an icon on my desktop AND on the launcher. MORON
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Linux for the masses, huh?
THIS is what makes my and my clients job so much more difficult (i try to sell new computers with open source alternatives preinstalled). The absence of features like this just scares people away.
I unlike many others like unity, thou it took a whilr to get used to, but many things became so much more difficult…
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Hi every time i try to do this it asks for my password and then it wont take my password the cursor just flashes ? can you help.
cheers.
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Right Click on Applications
Edit Menus
Find the place you want to add the new Launcher
Click New Item
Enter the information for your new Launcher
Click Close
Open Applications and browse to the Launcher you added.
Drag it to the Desktop
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when i run this:
# gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new
i found:
# gnome-desktop-item-edit: file:///root/Desktop does not have a .desktop or .directory suffix
i could not creat my own shoortcut on desktop,
plz reply if any one knew the solution of this problem
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donovan Reply:
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 pm
look at it this way:
gnome-desktop-item-edit^~/Desktop/^–create-new
where ^ is a space
those who left out the space overlooked that.
^^^^^^donovan
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when i run this:
# gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new
i found:
# gnome-desktop-item-edit: file:///root/Desktop does not have a .desktop or .directory suffix
i also fed up with this problem
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sufleR Reply:
June 4th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
It’s because you don’t have ~/Desktop/ (name of your desktop) folder.
I think that you have Ubuntu installed with your national language. In my system it’s called ~/Pulpit/ for example.
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Thank you.
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thank u so much now ,onwards i will be an die hard linux-UBUNTU follower .
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