Adding a launcher shortcut in Gnome 3.x Example of a shortcut is below, place this in one of two places. /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/vlc.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=MPlayer Name[en_US]=MPlayer GenericName=Media player Comment=Read, broadcast your multimedia streams Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Exec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer TryExec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer-org Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Recorder; Keywords=Player;Capture;DVD;Audio;Video;Server;Broadcast; An example of a NetBeans shortcut /usr/share/applications/netbeans.desktop netbeans.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application …
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