How Linux creates a desktop startup icon for an application

This article is mainly about how to create a Quick Launch icon for your application in Linux, but let's say we look at the actual steps:

The example of this article is to create a launch icon for Celipse

1. We need to create a startup script with the following command:

Gedit/usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

2. Copy the following contents to the file

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=utf-8
Name=eclipse
Comment=eclipse IDE
Exec=/usr/local/android/eclipse/eclipse
icon=/usr/local/android/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Startupnotify=true
Type=application
Categories=application;development;

Description section:

Exec: This is the directory of the application executable file

Icon: This is the directory of icons

3. Then you can find the icon you created in the applications-programming menu, then right-click to create a desktop icon

How Linux creates a desktop startup icon for an application