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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.

Jorge Castro
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Revolucion for Monica
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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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Jacob Vlijm
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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)
Jay Suttiruttana
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