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How to create desktop shortcut launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux - Linux Tutorials - Learn Linux Configuration

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The objective of this tutorial is to show you how to create a desktop shortcut launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux using the default GNOME user interface. Ubuntu mostly relies on its sidebar app launcher, but desktop shortcut launchers can allow you to open applications or websites super fast, since they live right on your desktop and make the targets only a click away. They are also easy to drag around the desktop so you can organize them any way you want to. In this tutorial you will learn: In case the desktop shortcut for your application is not available with the /usr/share/applications/ directory you have an option to create the Desktop launcher manually. In this example we will create and Desktop application shortcut for Skype application. Path Application Icon: /snap/skype/101/meta/gui/skypeforlinux.png Application name: Skype Path to executable binary:: /snap/bin/skype To obtain a full path to executable binary of any program use the which command eg.: In regards to

The objective of this tutorial is to show you how to create a desktop shortcut launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux using the default GNOME user interface. Ubuntu mostly relies on its sidebar app launcher, but desktop shortcut launchers can allow you to open applications or websites super fast, since they live right on your desktop and make the targets only a click away. They are also easy to drag around the desktop so you can organize them any way you want to. In this tutorial you will learn: How to create desktop shortcut launcher from existing .desktop files How to create desktop

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