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Nikos Lagios
Asked: 2018-06-28 10:38:14 +0800 CST

Missing Calculator icon in Ubuntu 18.04 with vanilla GNOME

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I have installed vanilla GNOME shell in Ubuntu 18.04 and the icon of Calculator is missing.

How can I fix this?

icons gnome-shell 18.04 gnome-calculator

1 Answers

  1. The pre-installed (GNOME) Calculator application on Ubuntu 18.04 is a snap application, it doesn't have .desktop launcher(s) for the application at traditional place(s), e.g. /usr/share/applications/. Check the /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/ directory instead.

    Alternatively, you may consider creating a custom .desktop launcher for the application by hand. To do so, follow the steps below.

    1. Create a new file, say calculator.desktop in your ~/.local/share/applications/ directory. You can do that by running the following in Terminal 

      touch ~/.local/share/applications/calculator.desktop

    2. Open this file with a text-editor, for example by running 

      gedit ~/.local/share/applications/calculator.desktop

    3. Add the following lines to this file and save the file. 

      [Desktop Entry]
Name=Calculator
Comment=Perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations
Exec=/snap/bin/gnome-calculator
Type=Application
Icon=accessories-calculator
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=false

    You may also remove the snap version by running 

    snap remove gnome-calculator

    and install the traditional apt versions by running 

    sudo apt install gnome-calculator
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