Ubuntu 18.04 LTS not creating shortcut

Question

I am having problems with the IntelliJ installation. The installer wont create a shortcut so I do have to start IntelliJ every time with the "./idea.sh" command. Which is pretty enoying if you everytime have to navigate there to start IntelliJ.

Version: 2018.2 Build: 182.3684.101

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2

If I could get some advices/help I would be very thankful. I am relatively new to Linux so I would really love an instruction :S

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. After you started IDEA IDE, right click on the IDE icon that shows up on the panel and select add to favourite. Then after you close the app, the icon will remain on the panel. — Bernard Wei, Jul 27 '18 at 17:50
Possible duplicate of How can I create launchers on my desktop? — karel, Jul 27 '18 at 18:24

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '19 at 10:10

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It is quite simple, in the main menu before opening a project there is a quick setting which will add IntelliJ as shortcut in Ubuntu. Go to "Configure" in the lower right corner and then select "Create Desktop entry".

edited May 23 '19 at 10:10

Kulfy

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answered May 23 '19 at 07:35

Dominik K

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Any ideas what if the option isn't there? – Rogol Mar 02 '22 at 15:02
Update IntelliJ to the newest version maybe? @Rogol – Dominik K Mar 02 '22 at 17:05
nope, this one helped me: gist.github.com/rob-murray/6828864 – Rogol Mar 03 '22 at 20:19
Note: if you want this to be available in your left sidebar, open the Activities search (via Activities button at top-left of desktop, or via Windows key), search for IntelliJ, then drag the IntelliJ shortcut onto your left sidebar. (At least, this is what I needed to do on Ubuntu 22.04.) – Mark Amery Jun 27 '23 at 13:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '22 at 13:26

As an alternative to @Dominik's answer, you can take the command line approach. Assuming that your IntelliJ installation files reside in /opt/idea/bin,

Create a Desktop Entry to show up in Activities

Create the file /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop. touch, vi or nano should work, if you have sudo enabled.
In that file, enter this:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Version=13.0
    Type=Application
    Terminal=false
    Icon[en_US]=/opt/idea/bin/idea.png
    Name[en_US]=IntelliJ Idea
    Exec=/opt/idea/bin/idea.sh
    Name=Idea
    Icon=/opt/idea/bin/idea.png

To make absolutely sure you have the right permissions, run the following two commands:

chmod 0644 /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop
chown root:root /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop

Et voilà!

Make a shortcut on your local Desktop

Copy the file you created above into your local Desktop directory

cp /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop /home/[user.name]/Desktop/
Adjust file permissions as appropriate

chmod 0755 /home/[user.name]/Desktop/idea.desktop

Et voilà!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '24 at 20:43

0

For recent versions of Idea(~2024) the options are here

answered Feb 08 '24 at 20:43

Abdullah Mohammad Motiullah

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS not creating shortcut

3 Answers3

Create a Desktop Entry to show up in Activities

Make a shortcut on your local Desktop