Hello,

I wan to run Eclipse and IntelliJ like all other KDE applications that is, to click on an icon and then getting them started.

Right now I have to launch Eclipse and IntelliJ from the terminal (shellscript).

How can I turn these shellscripts to real "desktop icons".

Does anyone have the appropriate eclipse.desktop and intellij.desktop files ?


Thanks in advance

You can easily create your own desktop files. E.g. in Dolphin, right click -> Create New -> Link to Application...
In "General", write the name of the desktop file and choose an icon.
In "Application", choose which command to run (e.g. a shellscript). Optionally, write a name and description of the application.

Thanks Hans.

Works great for IntelliJ but I need some additional help for Eclipse.

In order to get Eclipse working properly, my shellscript looks like this:

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#! /bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
/opt/eclipse/eclipse


I tried to create a eclipse.desktop file like this:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Galileo
Exec=/bin/bash -c "export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true && LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni && /opt/eclipse/eclipse"
Icon=/opt/eclipse/eclipse.png


Unfortunately, subclipse (svn client) won't start, that is LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni is not being recognized in the eclipse.desktop file.



Update: I solved it ! the second "export" command was missing :

Exec=/bin/bash -c "export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jni && /opt/eclipse/eclipse"

Ah. I meant that you could run the shell script from the desktop file, but your method works as well.

Could you please click on under your post with the answer to mark the topic as solved?

Hans wrote:Ah. I meant that you could run the shell script from the desktop file, but your method works as well.

Yes, luckily my method worked based on your first tip


Thanks for your fast answer.