{"id":693,"date":"2013-07-14T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=693"},"modified":"2013-07-14T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:49:10","slug":"create-shortcut-unity-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/create-shortcut-unity-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a shortcut to Unity search results and drop it to Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For applications that don&#8217;t have launcher icons for Ubuntu, you can manually create them to make available from the Unitys search results.<\/p>\n<p>Yestoday I installed Celtx 2.9.7 on my Ubuntu which doesn&#8217;t have a launcher icon by default. I need to run a command in terminal to open it everytime.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I got it fixed, and here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<p>1.) Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or from Unity Dash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/terminal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/terminal-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"terminal\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/terminal-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/terminal.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Run below command to install required package gnome-panel without installing the recommends.<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install gnome-panel --no-install-recommends<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/install-gnome-panel-no-recommends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/install-gnome-panel-no-recommends.jpg\" alt=\"install-gnome-panel-no-recommends\" width=\"500\" height=\"48\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/install-gnome-panel-no-recommends.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/install-gnome-panel-no-recommends-300x28.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.) From now, you can create a custom launcher by running this command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit \/usr\/share\/applications\/ --create-new<\/pre>\n<p>It brings up a dialog, where you can set the launcher <b>icon<\/b>, <b>name<\/b>, and <b>command<\/b> to run it. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtx was installed into \/usr\/local\/celtx\/ directory, and run by root. So I found the icon from that directory, and type in command with <b>gksudo<\/b> at beginning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-launcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-launcher.jpg\" alt=\"celtx-launcher\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-launcher.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-launcher-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once done,click OK. Search in Unity, and you&#8217;ll find it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-unity-dash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-unity-dash-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"celtx-unity-dash\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-unity-dash-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/celtx-unity-dash.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For applications that don&#8217;t have launcher icons for Ubuntu, you can manually create them to make available from the Unitys search results. Yestoday I installed Celtx 2.9.7 on my Ubuntu which doesn&#8217;t have a launcher icon by default. I need to run a command in terminal to open it everytime. Finally I got it fixed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-create-custom-launcher-to-unity-dash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}