How to add the desktop icon of the program to the ubuntu starter (illustration)

When installing some programs in Ubuntu, icons may not be placed in the starter, which is inconvenient to use. The following provides a solution. for details, refer to Ubuntu.

Solution:

Because the FileZilla program can be used after being decompressed directly, it is too troublesome to double-click the Filezilla/bin/filezilla directory where the file is located every time, if soft links are used directly, sudo ln-s/opt/FileZilla/bin/filezilla ~ /Desktop/filezilla, but it is too ugly to have no icons.

No icon

1. first create a filezilla. desktop file with the following content:

Filezilla file content

Exec is the execution file of the program, Icon is the Icon file of the program, and Name is the Name of the program.

2. modify the file permission: sudo chmod 744 filezilla. desktop. then, you can see that the file becomes a shortcut startup icon of the program, for example:

Files with modified permissions

3. all files in the initiator are stored in/usr/share/applications. Therefore, run the following command to move the file to the target Directory:


Copy codeThe code is as follows:
Sudo cp filezilla. desktop/usr/share/applications

4. then you can search for the program in the starter.

Note: After I upgraded my ubuntu from 12.04, the eclipse icon became very large, like a hyperthyroidism. After checking that the pixel of the eclipse icon is 256*256, you can find a smaller eclipse icon 48*48 and then restore it to normal.