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Faithful Flatworm answered on May 27, 2021 Popularity 8/10 Helpfulness 7/10

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Create a new text file with the following entries:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/path/to/executable
Name=Name of app as you want it to appear
Icon=/path/to/icon

To set a category (Programming used in example):
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/path/to/executable
Name=Name of app as you want it to appear
Icon=/path/to/icon
Categories=TextEditor;Development;IDE;

For an entry for just your user:
Save the file as application-name.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications where '~' represents your home path accessible by the command 'echo $HOME'.

For all users:
Save the file as application-name.desktop in /usr/share/applications.

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=someName
Comment=
Exec=/path/to/script.sh
Icon=/path/to/icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application

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