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Asked: 2024-10-19 10:18:05 +0800 CST

How to pin FireFox icon to Dash?

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This is on Ubuntu 24.04 and Firefox is snap. I managed to launch it up and now I would like to pin FireFox icon to Dash. Usually in prior versions, an icon of the application will show in Dash with a menu item of "Pin to Dash" when the application is running. But now, I cannot see any such icon in Dash for Firefox, so I don't know how to pin FireFox to Dash. Can you teach me how?

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  1. Best Answer

    Environment variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS should point to /var/lib/snapd/desktop which should find it.

    If it does point to it and the icon is not showing (and it exists in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications) then there is probably something else wrong - possibly a permission not set right. You can fix it temporarily by just copying the file as follows: -

    cp /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

    I hope this is of some help.

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