How to Create a .desktop File For Your Application in Solus

viyoriya

[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

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.

viyoriya

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

brent

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

algent I CD in terminal then run from the folder.

algent

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

brent

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.

brent

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

brent

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

Video Demo

brent

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

dbarron

It doesn't matter where you start writing documents 🙂

brent

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

viyoriya

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 🙂

brent

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

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