Adding a Custom App to Ubuntu

Works great on 22.04 pt

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I want to add a custom program to the favourites of Ubuntu dock, but there
is no option for that.
	

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It also doesn't appear in "Show Applications":

Is there a way for adding the program to both Favourites and Applications
menus?

    gnome-shellinstalled-programsubuntu-dock

pomsky
asked Apr 19, 2018 at 21:38

Elgirhath
    I want to do the same thing, but it appears this is some war crime. –

    Steve3p0
    May 7, 2022 at 0:58



Answer 1
This is fairly easy. First, make a desktop application file that follows 
the
freedesktop.org spec, e.g.

	[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MyApplication
Comment=My fancy new application
Exec=my_application
Icon=my_application.png
Terminal=false

If you want this to be usable by anyone on your system, put it in
	/usr/share/applications.
For personal use only, you can put it in
	~/.local/share/applications.
Look in /usr/share/applications for other examples. 
Add your icon image to 
	/usr/share/icons directory, 
or I assume the ~/.local/share/icons, although I have not tried that
last location myself.

Then, you can search for the application by name and drag it to the 
launcher
in the usual way!

    8
    This doesnt work anymore on 18.04 :( – 
    Shervin Asgari
    Oct 14, 2018 at 10:19
    5
    Shervin: I can verify that this still works on 18.04, both using
/usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications. You may need to
restart gnome to update the cache. – 
    Martin W
    Oct 16, 2018 at 21:54
    18
    One step is missing from the description to make it work: the .desktop
file needs to be executable, so run e.g. chmod a+x eclipse.desktop, see
askubuntu.com/questions/1082340/how-to-add-eclipse-to-favorites – 
    dariok
    Jul 17, 2019 at 10:11
    22
    For anyone looking to do this from the command line, run dconf read
/org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps, and you will get a list which starts like
['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']. Add your new .desktop
file to the list and run the appropriately-modified command dconf write
/org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps "['firefox.desktop', 
'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'my-app.desktop']". (Be careful since you'll
lose your existing favorites if you forget to include them with the dconf
write command.) – 
    Ben Mares
    Feb 17, 2020 at 14:31
    1
    This answer misses that you have to set the executable bit + mark it as
trusted: askubuntu.com/a/1152748/37881 – 
    Robert
    May 25, 2020 at 11:59



Answer 2