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Chelios
Asked: 2012-11-23 03:14:39 +0800 CST

How can I create launcher icon for PhpStorm?

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I have PhpStorm on my PC, to launch it I have to go to phpstorm/bin/ and launch phpstorm.sh, how can I pin this to launcher so that I dont have to go into folders every time?

12.04

10 Answers

  1. Run Tools —> Create Desktop Entry in top menu of IDE.

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  2. Best Answer

    Use IDE to create launcher. Open Tools -> Create Desktop Entry...

    Alternate method:

    You need to create a application launcher first.

    Installing gnome-panel

     sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

    To create launcher 

    sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

    This will open up a "Create Launcher" window

    Type: Application
    Name: PhpStorm
    Command: /bin/bash path_to/phpstorm.sh
    Comment: Any Comment

    This will create a launcher file in /usr/share/applications directory. Now double click and open the file.

    Once the file is launched. You can see the process in the unity launcher. Right click on the icon in the unity launcher and click "Lock to Launcher"

    Alternatively you can create a .desktop file

    Found this .desktop file here. I haven't tested it. Try your luck.

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=JetBrains PhpStorm
Exec=/opt/PhpStorm/bin/phpstorm.sh %f
Icon=/opt/PhpStorm/bin/webide.png
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-phpstorm
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  3. Try changing the two below lines in the file ~/.local/share/applications/jetbrains-phpstorm.desktop

    Icon=/home/$USER/Downloads/PhpStorm-138.2000.2262/bin/webide.png
Exec="/home/$USER/Downloads/PhpStorm-138.2000.2262/bin/phpstorm.sh" %f
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  4. Go to Tools-> "Create Desktop Entry"

    Phpstorm 8 Tools menu

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  5. By far the easiest solution is to open PhpStorm, where it will show in the launcher. Then right click on it in the launcher and select "Lock to Launcher" and your done.

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  6. You do not need to do anything. Just run PhpStorm/PyCharm for the first time from a command line with

    /path/PhpStorm/bin/phpstorm.sh

    And after it will start a popup will appear asking you for a password to add it to a launcher. When you will submit your password an ico will appear in the launcher.

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  7. On KDE Plasma 5.17.14, I had to create a new Item in the menu.

    Right-click on the application launchermenu, clickEdit Applications...to start KMenuEdit.

    In the Development group, right-click and "add a new item", enter PHPStorm for example. Then Ok.

    With this item selected, on the right part on the window, update the "command" field with "path/to/phpstormFolder/bin/phpstorm.sh"

    Click on the icon on right in order to set the application icon: Other Icon, browse and put : "path/to/phpstormFolder/bin/phpstorm.png"

    File/save. If you find any issue with writing the .menu file, check the permissions of /home/"your_user"/.config/menus

    It's done, you can access the launcher in the usual Appliocations launcher.

    If you want to get it the task bar, in the application launcher, on the PHPStorm entry, richt click and "pin to task Manager"

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  8. From terminal, cd into {installation home}/bin and type: ./webstorm.sh

    This will open the app and from the IDE go to Tools —> Create Desktop Entry in the top menu and then close the app. Now, you can open it from the system menu.

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  9. Late in the party but this might be useful

    Step-1: cd /usr/share/applications/

    Step-2: Create a file sudo touch jetbrains-phpstorm.desktop

    Step-3: Then sudo vi jetbrains-phpstorm.desktop

    Step-4: open new terminal goto folder phpstrom bin folder and enter pwd for example in my case: cd ~/Downloads/PhpStorm-213.5744.279/bin && pwd

    Step-5: then in vi copy-paste this

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PhpStorm
Icon=<pwd copied path of bin>/phpstorm.png
Exec="<pwd copied path of bin>/phpstorm.sh" %f
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-phpstorm

    Note: change <pwd copied path of bin> with the copied path of phpstorm bin in Step-4

    to save press the ESC button followed by :wq

    any mistake then press the ESC button followed by :q!

    Happy coding!

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  10. As of 2017-12-14, you can install PhpStorm as a snap, either from the Ubuntu Software application, or the command line. See Install PhpStorm with Snaps for details.

    This will automatically add a launcher icon to your desktop.

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