Staudey And that is one of the greatest all time strengths of Linux, many ways to do any given task.
I prefer always learning the basic/hard way, because you never know when your GUI tool will be unavailable or broken, and you're left flat-footed. I got into an issue where I didn't even have 'vi' available last week. 'Cat', 'echo','sed', and redirection are your friend.

    I right clicked both of my non-repo apps and put them on desktop. I rebooted, they are still there.
    Yes, I have the ugly gear icon but I'm ok with it.

    I need to write a desktop file to shoehorn the app into the menu? I can try that.

    P.S.--neither of my executables were *.sh nor were there .sh files for my two apps.

    I still didn't get naming of the icon. I got to dig thru the stacer and zygrib files to see if they furnished icons? And pick what I like?

    I'm getting there, thanks for any clarity.

      OK---followed the script above in Gedit.
      `Zygrib

      Type=Application

      Version=8.0.1

      Name=Zygrib

      Comment=no stinkin tooltip

      Path=/home/brent/Downloads/zyGrib-8.0.1

      Exec=/root/zyGrib/bin

      Icon=/home/brent/Downloads/zyGrib-8.0.1/data/img/zyGrib.icns

      Terminal=false

      Categories=weatherapp`

      Saved where it told me to save.
      Reboot.
      No desktop icon.
      No app menu prescence.
      What did I do wrong? Take app out of root?
      Giving up for a while.
      Non-urgent. At your convenience, thank you.

        Brent, do you have a category called weatherapp already? If you don't, that may take another file to setup (I don't know...just making assumption). If you put it as Utility or some other pre-defined category, and login/out of window manager, you should see it I would think.

          [unknown] this tutorial asks you to navigate to a directory. Make a text file. Then copy and paste a template with comments on what exactly each do.

          If this is to complicated for a beginner I'm not one to judge but we made need them to go back to the basics.

          Chapter 1 - Word Processing and file structure

          dbarron Have mateo and another minor weatherapp installed. But nowhere in a search have I seen the word 'weatherapp' anywhere...outside me just inventing it for the script.

          No file or folder or category with that name externally,
          edit: thank you for reply

            Solus/Nautilus calls the zygrib bin a 'program' file SirOaken

            properties tab calls it: executable (application/x-executable)

              I'm sorry my tutorial is considered complicated. I don't speak English and use an online translator, so I was very brief.

              brent What I do that is a little different than the op instructions. is placing the .desktop in ~/desktop folder. It wont give you the application in the budgie menu but should give you the icon on your desktop.

                  brent

                  [Desktop Entry]
Name=Zygrib
Type=Application
Icon=/home/brent/Downloads/zyGrib-8.0.1/data/img/zyGrib.icns
Exec=/home/brent/Downloads/zyGrib-8.0.1/bin/zyGrib
Comment=no stinkin tooltip
Terminal=false
Keywords=Weather;
Categories=System;Settings;

                  save as <yourfilename>.desktop and place is in /usr/share/applications or ./local/share/applications (hope you knew that in case if you dont know)

                  Hope this will work for u. Exec is the executable file name with the path 😀 .

                  There is no Categories as Weather so it goes to Others . Check for categories.
                  https://developer.gnome.org/menu-spec/
                  https://developer.gnome.org/menu-spec/#additional-category-registry

                  So the weather goes as science/Education i guess. if you want to move it to Education then update with this
                  Categories=Education;

                  Category Directories are in ls /usr/share/desktop-directories
                  The main menus in cat ~/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu

                      brent really? now your tooltip will display no stinkin tooltip when you hover the app.....lol

                          viyoriya I gutted my script and used yours, saved where you told me to save, thank you. Still nothing, but I think I will get it eventually. Thank you for your help.

                            SirOaken I did that as well. The desktop folder with no '.' in front of it. It put a file on the desktop but it was not executable.

                              @ALL: thanks for the great replies. Although I did not have success, I eventually will. Have a great Sunday.

                              brent Then post here what do you enter in terminal, all steps.

                                  Hi algent, for zygrib I drop the executable into the terminal and it launches. For stacer I'm still changing directory in terminal to folder then output/stacer. It's convoluted but it was another person's method (in your old stacer build thread) and I just stayed lazy about it.
                                  If I can get zygrib onto desktop and menu, then I know I'll be able to do it for stacer.
                                  Have a little time, I'm going to write this file from scratch again and delete the old one.