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Is there a way to add mounted shares to the launcher (Ubuntu 14.10)? I prefer to do it via the terminal, but if there is a easy way to do it via the GUI it's also fine.

My shares are at /media/*sharename*

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Jim
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It is not advisable to add a separate icon to the launcher, calling nautilus. The reason is that then the new icon will "steal" the arrow that you see when an application (in this case: a directory) is opened. The Unity launcher (in principle) only allows one icon at a time to represent an application.

Add a shortcut to the Files icon manually

Instead, add the location to the existing nautilus icon, as described here.

Via GUI

Alternatively, if you'd like to do it via GUI, you could use a quicklist editor, much more convenient:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vlijm/qle
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qle

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I wouldn't mention my own stuff, but it fits the question.

Since nautilus will be active possibly when you edit its launcher for the first time, you might have to log out/in the first time to see the result (The editor cannot refresh an icon if an application runs).

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Jacob Vlijm
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you can use this tricky solution.

create a launcher on your desktop using the old GUI dialog, run the command

gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop

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Now In Name write the name of your launcher suppose ShareMount

In command entry write the command 

nautilus /media/share*

Then press ok.

Now you have create a .desktop launcher on your Desktop.

To put it on unity launcher easily drag and drop the .desktop file from desktop to unity launcher.

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