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?

score 179 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 22 '14 at 13:53

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

edited Oct 22 '14 at 13:53

Rahil Wazir

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answered Nov 30 '12 at 12:46

m05quit0

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Seems not to work in 13.04 :( – Nathan J.B. May 01 '13 at 18:18
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Works for me in 13.04! – Elte Hupkes Jul 12 '13 at 08:54
Works for WebStorm EAP 11 and Ubuntu 14 as well. – Dan Dascalescu Aug 15 '15 at 11:12
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Why does Jetbrains not include this (by default, mind you) in their bash script installation? – MikeMurko Oct 20 '15 at 00:42
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Where is checkbox Create Desktop Entry in installation wizard. – m05quit0 Nov 14 '15 at 18:53
@MikeMurko what installation script? The one inside bin is executable, not installable. – JorgeeFG Dec 18 '15 at 16:28
@JorgeeFG if you check their latest download instructions: "Run PhpStorm.sh from the bin subdirectory" – MikeMurko Dec 22 '15 at 19:01
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works for me in 16.04 and PhpStorm 2016.2 – Alfred Bez Jul 13 '16 at 11:24
Still working, 16.04, PhpStorm 2017.3. Thanks! – Ferrmolina Dec 22 '17 at 00:26
Works for me with KDE Kubuntu. – Waqleh Jan 10 '18 at 15:00
This is no longer necessary as PhpStorm can now be installed as a snap, which does this for you. See my answer here for details. – colan May 25 '18 at 12:58
still works (ubuntu 20, phpstorm 2020.2) – para Sep 23 '20 at 15:43
This should be the accepted answer. – funder7 Jul 04 '22 at 02:48

score 133 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 14 '18 at 09:41

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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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answered Nov 22 '12 at 11:31

devav2

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This right here is one of the reasons Linux has such a limited user base. – Ben Jun 30 '13 at 00:04
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@Webnet This right here is an example of someone who has the wrong information. See the other answer. – Andrew Mao Sep 18 '13 at 22:52
Great!Great!Great! – jofftiquez Jun 22 '16 at 08:27
This is no longer necessary as PhpStorm can now be installed as a snap, which does this for you. See my answer here for details. – colan May 25 '18 at 12:58

score 20 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 16 '14 at 23:41

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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

edited Sep 16 '14 at 23:41

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answered Sep 16 '14 at 22:57

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This worked to change the existing launcher icon to now launch 8 instead of 7. – JoshP Oct 09 '14 at 13:07
I noticed the same desktop file is also placed in /usr/share/applications (I probably installed for all users on the system). You might have to edit this file as well! – karimkorun Mar 19 '16 at 15:56
On KDE this answer worked for me. I've installed phpstorm using snap and the icon extension in this path was svg. I created a new png icon and follow your instructions. Now it shows properly. Thanks – Alwin Kesler Jul 19 '18 at 10:03
works on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS – Stan Fad Oct 15 '19 at 12:47

zatamine · Answer 4 · 2016-02-27T13:43:33.183

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Go to Tools-> "Create Desktop Entry"

Phpstorm 8 Tools menu

edited Feb 27 '16 at 13:43

answered Jul 09 '15 at 11:28

zatamine

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May be need restart session if entry not appeared after creation. – Павел Шорохов Jul 14 '16 at 23:10
The exact same answer has been given 2,5 years ago: https://askubuntu.com/a/223833/297583. – Stephan Vierkant Jul 04 '18 at 19:57
This works for me... Thanks! – Martín Mori Apr 17 '21 at 11:41

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 22 '16 at 13:28

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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.

answered Jul 22 '16 at 13:28

danlynn

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When you do this in KDE plasms, you can obtain an Icon that launch anything but the java virtual machine – Jean-Marc Jan 13 '20 at 10:49

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Mar 06 '21 at 13:08

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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.

edited Mar 06 '21 at 13:08

Greenonline

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answered Mar 06 '21 at 09:04

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That is what I was looking for. Thanks – Sam Jan 05 '22 at 07:19

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 00:42

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.

Jean-Marc · Answer 8 · 2020-01-13T13:00:31.893

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"

score 1 · Answer 9 · edited Dec 04 '21 at 20:05

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!

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered May 25 '18 at 12:54

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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.

answered May 25 '18 at 12:54

colan

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Snap's install brought a svn icon which seems doesn't render properly on KDE. I followed @Young answer with a created png icon and worked – Alwin Kesler Jul 19 '18 at 10:06

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