Including New Apps in the Search engine on Ubuntu Bycamilalui November 3, 2019 0 Comments If you are experiencing issues when trying to search for your recently installed software on Ubuntu, try to create this file with all the info about your software. [Desktop Entry] Version=x.y Name=ProgramName Comment=This is my comment Exec=/home/alex/Documents/exec.sh Icon=/home/alex/Pictures/icon.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Utility;Application; It needs to be placed at this path: /usr/share/applications/ Example: root@camistp:~# cat /usr/share/applications/x3270.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type = Application Name = x3270 Comment = x3270 Exec = x3270 Icon = /usr/share/doc/x3270/x3270-icon2.xpm Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related