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umpirsky
Asked: 2011-05-19 21:56:24 +0800 CST

How do I add Netbeans to the Unity launcher?

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I have installed NetBeans 7.0 manually, because only 6.9 is available in Ubuntu Software Center.

I tried to keep it in launcher, but after system restart it's gone.

How can I permanently add it?

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8 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Create a netbeans.desktop file with somewhat following content in your $HOME/.local/share/applications/ folder(If not present create it). And drag and drop the netbeans.desktop file to your launcher. I am doing the same with eclipse. If you want netbeans to be available to othe users as well you can create the desktop file in /usr/share/applications as well.

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Netbeans
Comment=Netbeans IDE
Exec=path/to/executable i.e. $HOME/netbeans/netbeans
Icon=netbeans
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development,IDE;
StartupNotify=false

    Make sure you have correct path and keep in launcher is checked. enter image description here

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  2. 'Java Ayatana' plugin for Netbeans solve the following problems ( tested on 12.04 64bit)

    • adds global menu
    • fixes launcher

    How to install:

    1) in Tools -> Plugins -> Settings add http://java-swing-ayatana.googlecode.com/files/netbeans-catalog.xml

    now look for: 'Java Ayatana' Tools -> plugin -> Avariable plugin

    2) or install manually from: http://code.google.com/p/java-swing-ayatana/

    On 64bit with oracle java 7 if you experience this problem:

    libjawt.so cannot open shared object file no such file

    do this:

    sudo ldconfig /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/amd64/

    Thank you Dan Jaren for this plugin

    Update:

    On NetBeans 7.2RC1 launcher works fine by default. 'Java Ayatana' 's global menu integration works fine too.

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  3. The answer of Kacharov is good (very good), but the Ubuntu Unity Launcher Plugin of Netbeans is already on Netbeans plugin and Google project website.

    http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/40321/ubuntu-unity-launcher
    http://code.google.com/p/nbs-unity-launcher/

    To make it more formal.

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  4. Following @sagarchalise's answer, here's a working (~/.local/share/applications/netbeans.desktop) contents for NB 7.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.04:

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Netbeans
Comment=Netbeans IDE
Exec=/usr/local/netbeans-7.0.1/bin/netbeans
Icon=/usr/local/netbeans-7.0.1/nb/netbeans.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development,IDE;
StartupNotify=false
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  5. You can use this NetBeans plugin!

    http://ubuntuone.com/4T3EB9MnJVqxrEE494oLyi

    It is very useful!

    Original page: http://danjared.blogspot.com/2011/10/unity-launcher.html

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  7. I am on Ubuntu 14.10 with Netbeans 8.0 and Docky 2.0

    I was able to solve the problem by doing the following steps from: http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=How_to_Customize_Window_Matching

    1 Create netbeans.desktop file for Netbeans something like this (adjust for your netbeans path, version, etc.)

    #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Netbeans 8.0
Comment=Java IDE
Exec=/bin/sh "/home/your/path/to/netbeans/bin/netbeans"
Icon=/home/your/path/to/netbeans/nb/ntebeans.png
Categories=Application;Development;Java;IDE
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=0
StartupWMClass=REPLACE_ME

    2 Start Netbeans

    3 Open a terminal window and run:

    xprop | grep WM_CLASS | awk '{print $4}'

    4 A crosshair cursor will be displayed, click on netbeans window

    The WMClass for the window should be printed in terminal, for me this was:

    "netbeans-8.0"

    6 In the netbeans.desktop set the value for StartupWMClass like so:

    StartupWMClass=netbeans-8.0

    7 Save the file and copy to;

    /usr/share/applications

    8 Exit Docky

    8.5 optional step: delete the docky desktop cache in

    ~/.cache/docky/docky.desktop.*.cache

    9 Start Docky

    10 Drag your netbeans.desktop file from /usr/share/applcations in nautilus (etc.) into docky

    11 Start up netbeans and see what happens :D

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  8. For the current NetBeans 11 version, installed in /opt

    Also changed the default icon from the tiny .png file meant for Windows, to the larger .icns file meant for MacOSX. This looks much better in the launcher. Also had to fix the StartupMWClass= to prevent 2 icons from showing.

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=Apache NetBeans IDE 11.0
Keywords=cpp,java
Exec=/opt/netbeans/bin/netbeans
Icon=/opt/netbeans/nb/netbeans.icns
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development,Java,IDE
StartupWMClass=Apache NetBeans IDE 11.0

    Just save the above as ~/.local/share/applications/netbeans.desktop

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