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| Linux Desktop Icons | 2019-06-03T21:05:37-04:00 | false |
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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.
In fact the simplest file would follow the format:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Application Name
Exec=/path/to/executable -randomFlag
Icon=/optional/path/to/icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
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.