I have an installation of Spyder via anaconda on Ubuntu 18.04 and also on Linux Mint 20. In both cases I don't get an entry in the launcher, even if I copy the spyder.desktop file that came with the installation into the path ~/.local/share/applications and making it executable.
The Desktop Entry looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=Spyder
GenericName=Spyder
Comment=The Scientific Python Development Environment
Icon=spyder
TryExec=spyder
Exec=spyder %F
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/x-python;
Categories=Development;Science;IDE;Qt;
Keywords=Development;Science;IDE;Qt;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Spyder
Am I missing something? I took the advice of this post and ran gnome-open spyder.desktop
from the directory, but no response.
