https://dchua.com/tags/gnome/ Recent content in gnome on davidchua Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2014-09-12-link-your-custom-app-to-your-gnome-applications/ Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2014-09-12-link-your-custom-app-to-your-gnome-applications/ If you’re running GNOME and you have a custom script/app that you want to be able to run quickly from your applications bar, you can easily add an entry with the following: In your ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications folder (choose one depending on whether you want to share with all your users or yourself), add the following entry: # whateverfile.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Sample Application Name Comment=A sample application Exec=application Icon=application.