Installing Teamspeak and creating TeamSpeak3 .desktop file

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I am very new to Ubuntu and I want to create desktop launcher.

I have this in my TeamSpeak3.desktop in

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamSpeak 3
Comment=TeamSpeak 3 VoIP Communicator
Exec=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;Application;
Icon=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/styles/default/logo-128x128.png

in my ~/.local/share/applications/TeamSpeak3.desktop But I dont see it in my launcher and when I double click on it files, it just opens the text file. I even made it executable with chmod +x TeamSpeak3.desktop

drwx------ 15 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 pro  9 19:22 ..
-rw-------  1 hung hung   174627 srp 16 12:29 CHANGELOG
-rwx------  1 hung hung   227136 srp 16 12:29 error_report
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 gfx
drwx------  3 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 html
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 iconengines
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 imageformats
-rwx------  1 hung hung   334520 srp 16 12:29 libc++abi.so.1
-rwx------  1 hung hung  1934744 srp 16 12:29 libcrypto.so.1.0.0
-rwx------  1 hung hung   746960 srp 16 12:29 libc++.so.1
-rwx------  1 hung hung  5842312 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Core.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   484832 srp 16 12:29 libQt5DBus.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  5683224 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Gui.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  1335584 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Network.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   290008 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Positioning.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  3829280 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Qml.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  3831288 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Quick.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   234552 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Sql.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   331232 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Svg.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   117104 srp 16 12:29 libQt5WebChannel.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung 67570152 srp 16 12:29 libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   208344 srp 16 12:29 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  6439120 srp 16 12:29 libQt5Widgets.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung  1334528 srp 16 12:29 libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
-rwx------  1 hung hung   180248 srp 16 12:29 libquazip.so
-rwx------  1 hung hung    22936 srp 16 12:29 libsnappy.so.1
-rwx------  1 hung hung   111888 srp 16 12:29 libsrtp.so.0
-rwx------  1 hung hung   383072 srp 16 12:29 libssl.so.1.0.0
-rwx------  1 hung hung    51080 srp 16 12:29 libudev.so.0
-rw-------  1 hung hung     4340 srp 16 12:29 openglblacklist.json
-rwx------  1 hung hung   260232 srp 16 12:29 package_inst
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 platforms
-rw-------  1 hung hung       26 srp 16 12:29 qt.conf
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 qtwebengine_locales
-rwx------  1 hung hung    19720 srp 16 12:29 QtWebEngineProcess
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 resources
drwx------  6 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 sound
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 soundbackends
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 sqldrivers
drwx------  3 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 styles
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 translations
-rwx------  1 hung hung 18987008 srp 16 12:29 ts3client_linux_amd64
-rwx------  1 hung hung     1364 srp 16 12:29 ts3client_runscript.sh
-rwx------  1 hung hung  2206064 srp 16 12:29 update
drwx------  2 hung hung     4096 srp 16 12:29 xcbglintegrations

yes, i am, i have used it .. it does the same when i try to open my steam.desktop. I think i have somewhere disabled how to open .desktop, but i have no idea where to look — sushionthefork, Dec 09 '17 at 19:00
Can you provide the output of ls -la /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/. [edit] your question to include this information. — Videonauth, Dec 09 '17 at 20:34
Ok as I thought. So you have run that Teamspeak.run file in your home dir and then moved it to /opt/? then i will write an answer for you covering the whole process of making it work, because your .desktop file is ok as it is. — Videonauth, Dec 09 '17 at 22:29
I ran Teamspeak.run from my Download folder, is there a difference? — sushionthefork, Dec 09 '17 at 22:36

Videonauth · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-09T23:03:41.823

Ok you have some things wrong in your whole setup and like this it can not really work so I'm going through the whole installation process for you so you can pick up where you got astray.

download the TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run from The Teamspeak Website

run the TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run file with:

chmod 755 TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run
./TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run

move the whole new directory to /opt with

sudo mv TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64 /opt/

change the ownership of the moved copy and recursively change the file permissions with:

sudo chown -Rv root:root /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64
sudo chmod -Rv 755 /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64

download some nice icon for Teamspeak, since the provided does not really look good, google simply for teamspeak ico png and download one and move it to the /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64 and name it appropriately; I have chosen here simply teamspeak-icon.png

create your .desktop file in /usr/share/applications (you can copy and paste the whole code-block to the terminal):

sudo su &&
cat > /usr/share/applications/teamspeak.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamSpeak 3
Comment=TeamSpeak 3 VoIP Communicator
Exec=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;Application;
Icon=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/teamspeak-icon.png
EOF
exit

This should leave you with a working Teamspeak client working for every user on the system.

Installing Teamspeak and creating TeamSpeak3 .desktop file

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