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I am trying to pin an application to the 'launcher'. In Ubuntu 17.10 it is called 'add to favorites'.

With most applications it works by:

  1. Launch the application
  2. Right-click its icon on the launcher
  3. Add to favorites

However, for some applications, the "Add to favorites" choice is not there:

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I tried following the solution from this question but failed, probably because 17.10 uses a new desktop (whatever that means).

Is there some way to add an application to the 'launcher' manually?

Martin Drozdik
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    You can manually drag the application to the dock when it's not running. – muru Oct 25 '17 at 10:29
  • @muru Thank you, but this doesn't work for me, since the application is not in this thingy that used to be dash. Also, dragging and dropping the binary executable to the dock did not work. – Martin Drozdik Oct 25 '17 at 10:32
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    Oh, then you'd probably need to write a .desktop file for it as given in https://askubuntu.com/q/967409/158442 – muru Oct 25 '17 at 10:33
  • @muru Thank you! That works, but I only have a generic icon on the launcher and when I click it an additional icon with the green robot appears. However this is a minor detail. – Martin Drozdik Oct 25 '17 at 10:46
  • Hmm, maybe setting the Icon field may help, not sure though. – muru Oct 25 '17 at 10:51
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    @MartinDrozdik See if this trick gets rid of multiple icons: https://askubuntu.com/a/971431/480481 – pomsky Oct 31 '17 at 22:31

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