Including New Apps in the Search engine on Ubuntu

November 3, 2019April 11, 2020 - camilalui

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

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