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.

                          AguerreroG you started your build in the Documents folder. I find that wild. I've done it in Downloads and one in /.build.

                          What has me always scratching my head about builds is this: does it matter where you start? Or are there places one must never start a build? edit: good youtube clip

                            It doesn't matter where you start writing documents 🙂

                              dbarron thank you, I lost sight of the big picture there (been a day!)

                                viyoriya
                                You want to hear something really weird but all too common? SOLVED.
                                I walked away from this file a couple days. Actually I threw the .desktop file away to start over today.
                                In my /desktop folder there was the icon.
                                I moved it to desktop.
                                Simultaneously when I did that the icon also appeared in task bar. I deleted it since it's redundant.
                                Thank you for helping me. You do a lot of good.
                                Problem clear on my end.
                                edit: re-word

                                    brent cool . sometimes it may not appear immediately a reboot will read all the .desktop files from global and local dir or you can execute this command in terminal

                                    if its global
                                    sudo update-desktop-database
                                    if its local
                                    update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

                                    for future .desktop files 🙂

                                        viyoriya thanks for the followup commands. talk to you when I write the Stacer file!