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Asked: 2016-05-21 10:04:01 +0800 CST

Manually created scilab launcher doesn't work

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I try to create shortcuts when an application are running thanks to the icon that appear on the left side and I do Lock to launcher (which actually impede to take a screen shot). Yet, I did it for Eclipse and even if there is an icon, it doesn't work and for SciLab it would never work.

Therefore, how to create shortcuts for programs on Ubuntu?

I created a file SciLab.desktop as suggested by Nitesh Sharma

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=./bin/scilab
Name=SciLab
Comment=comment here
Icon=/home/antoine/scilab-5.5.2/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/scilab.png

and then did chmodx ScilLab.desktop but I have then an error and I am not able to stick it to the menu on the left.

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But I don't know what to do from there.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The downloaded version has a number of .desktop files in .../scilab-5.5.2/share/applications

    These .desktop files however assume the application is in $PATH, since the commands in the files to not include an absolute path to the binaries.
    There is also an instruction on which commands to run when, in .../scilab-5.5.2/share/applications.

    I would however save yourself the time, and install scilab simply from the repos (not from the downloaded file) by the command:

    sudo apt-get install scilab

    The version in the repos seems to be pretty much up-to-date!

    Note

    in case you might have saved one or more scilab "home-made" .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications, be sure to remove them, since they will overrule the global ones, installed from apt-get

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  2. Try this!

    Note: I'm using Scilab v6.0 on CentOS 7 running Gnome 3 Desktop.

    1. Open a terminal
    2. Goto Desktop directory (/home/$yourname/Desktop/)
    3. Create a scilab desktop file (touch scilab.desktop)
    4. Open the file and add the following content to the file (vi scilab.desktop) Note: the Exec=path to your scilab executable and Icon=path to your scilab icon

    [Desktop Entry]

    Version=1.0

    Type=Application

    Terminal=true

    Exec=/home/$YOURNAME/apps/scilab-6.0.0/bin/scilab

    Name=scilab

    Comment=

    Icon=/home/$YOURNAME/apps/scilab-6.0.0/share/icons/hicolor/32x3/apps/scilab.png

    Comment[en_US.utf8]=

    Name[en_US]=Scilab 6.0

    1. Change file permission to 755 (chmod 755 scilab.desktop)
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