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title: "Linux Desktop Icons"
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date: 2019-06-03T21:05:37-04:00
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draft: false
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---
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I get asked a decent number of times how to add desktop icons on Linux. Luckily it's incredibly easy. [It's a `freedesktop` standard](http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/).
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In fact the simplest file would follow the format:
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```yaml
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[Desktop Entry]
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Name=Application Name
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Exec=/path/to/executable -randomFlag
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Icon=/optional/path/to/icon
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Terminal=false
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Type=Application
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```
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Once you have this saved to `yourapplication.desktop` move it to either `/usr/share/applications` if you want it system-wide or `/home/user/.local/share/applications` if you want it just for your `user`.
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