

Which works will also depend on which version of Ubuntu you are have. There are a lot of different proposed solutions. If this still doesn’t work for you, check this post on ‘Ask Ubuntu’. Edit: when trying for another program, this only worked after I made the. I read somewhere you may need to restart unity (type unity –replace in the command line), but I didn’t need to do that. Icon=/home/paulo/Documents/Design/Logos/foxitreader.png The configuration file is a simple text file which looks like: Įxec=/home/paulo/Software/Office/Foxit_reader/FoxitReader %u local/share/applications in your home folder. This is a text file which you need to place in the folder. To integrate the program in the dash, you need to create a desktop configuration file. This runs without problems (go to the folder where you downloaded and uncompressed the executable, and run. When you are running Ubuntu amd64, your only option is to download the (compressed) executable. You can download a deb installation file from their webpage, but this only works on Ubuntu i386. But what if you want to run a program that is not installed the normal way?īelow is an example how I solved this for Foxit reader. When you install a program from the software center it will be automatically available in the Dash. How to add an application to the Ubuntu dash.
