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I have downloaded Mellow Player as an AppImage. I can run this with no problems from the terminal, however I would like to lock this to the Favourites panel.

I have tried creating a mellow-player.desktop file, this again works at opening Mellow Player but there is still no option to add to favourites. This is the .desktop file I created:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/home/Desktop/MellowPlayer-x86_64.AppImage
Name=mellow-player
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  • have a look here https://askubuntu.com/questions/990833/cannot-add-custom-launcher-to-dock-add-to-favorites – kerner1000 Jan 24 '18 at 19:06
  • thanks for the replies @pomsky (and kerner). I have tried both of these links and successfully managed to get the favourite panel working for the chrome example. However it still doesn't work for mellow player: it does not appear in the search in activities aswell. – time_is_a_drug Jan 24 '18 at 21:40
  • The Exec= line seems to be wrong. Try /home/YOUR-USERNAME/Desktop/MellowPlayer-x86_64.AppImage. – pomsky Jan 25 '18 at 01:25
  • Put the desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and it should appear in the applications overview and from there you should be able to add it to the favorites bar. – hexman Jan 25 '18 at 06:29

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The Exec= line seems to be wrong. Change it to 

Exec=/home/YOUR-USERNAME/Desktop/MellowPlayer-x86_64.AppImage

(Put your username in place of YOUR-USERNAME)

Then follow this Q&A: Can't add Custom .desktop files to dock 17.10

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