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!