Ubuntu pinning apps to the Quick Launch bar

There are no shortcuts on Ubuntu, and software Center-installed apps have icons and can be added to the launcher because they have a desktop configuration file. These configuration files under /usr/share/applications This folder, since this kind of, casually open a configuration file, and then according to gourd painting Scoop, wrote a sublime text of the desktop file:

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#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open    [Desktop Entry]    Name=Sublime Text 2    Comment=Sublime Text 2    Exec=/usr/local/software/sublime/sublime_text    Icon=/usr/local/software/sublime/Icon/48x48/sublime_text.png    Terminal=false    Type=Application    Categories=Application;Development;    StartupNotify=true

　　

There are only a few places to modify:

• Name: It's the title.
• Comment: equivalent to annotations
• Exec: Path to executable file
• Icon path, Sublime text default is the icon with a variety of models

Several other settings are primarily categories, and if you put this profile /usr/share/applications in a folder, you can find the software in the appropriate category through Ubuntu Software management. Save the above file, for example sublime.desktop（一定要以desktop结尾） , and make sure to give permission to execute, and then double-click to open Sublime text, and the icon on the launcher can also be fixed.

Ubuntu pinning apps to the Quick Launch bar