Created desktop shortcut in Elementary Linux, does not appear in list of applications

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After a couple of hours of tinkering I have Oracle SQL Developer installed on ElementaryOS (based off Ubuntu) and created a desktop shortcut Oracle SQL developer.desktop in /usr/share/applicatons

Only thing is, when I open up the applications menu from the GUI it doesn't appear.

Code from the .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Oracle SQL Developer
Icon=/sqldeveloper/icon.png
Exec=sqldeveloper

Output from ls -l /usr/share/applicatons/Oracle SQL developer.desktop

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120 Aug 31 13:48 /usr/share/applications/Oracle SQL Developer.desktop

All other .desktop files are also -rw-r--r--

As a workaround I can open SQL Developer from terminal by running sqldeveloper but I'd like to use the shortcut I created. Any ideas what to do to get this to appear in the applications menu?

Cheers

Omar.Ebrahim

Posted 2013-08-31T12:43:49.610

Reputation: 111

EDIT: copied to dock at the bottom of the screen from the folder, but doesn't appear in applications list – None – 2013-08-31T12:49:47.917

Could you [edit] your question to include the contents of the .desktop file and also the output of ls -l /usr/share/applicatons/Oracle\ SQL\ developer.desktop please? – terdon – 2013-08-31T14:30:01.120

I can confirm that the exact same setup you describe causes a menu item to appear on my machine (Cinnamon environment). ElemntaryOS uses pantheon do you know that the menu works in a similar way? Does it work if you use a different name (preferably one with no spaces)? Try editing one of the other .desktop files, does that change what appears in the menu?

– terdon – 2013-08-31T15:33:21.263

I checked a few of the others, and realised I was missing the category, highlighted in red in Scratch's syntax highlighting.

I put it under 'Categories=Development' and it appeared in the menu. – Omar.Ebrahim – 2013-08-31T15:34:10.557

I've not got enough rep points to answer my own question :( – Omar.Ebrahim – 2013-08-31T15:35:16.077

What? It should require no reputation to answer a question, are you sure?

– terdon – 2013-08-31T15:42:03.960

Ah, oops. I can't answer it yet. Have to wait another 4 hours until I mark it as answered. cheers – Omar.Ebrahim – 2013-08-31T15:45:15.400

You should still be able to post the answer, you need to wait for four hours after posting an answer in order to accept it. – terdon – 2013-08-31T15:47:26.360

Answers

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I checked a few of the other .desktop files, and realised I was missing the category, highlighted in red in Scratch's syntax highlighting.

I put it under

Categories=Development

and it appeared.

As a note, you can put multiple categories for one item, but only the ones that highlight in red in (Scratch, I don't know about Gedit) will appear in the menu in Elementary.

Omar.Ebrahim

Posted 2013-08-31T12:43:49.610

Reputation: 111

You're missing a ;

desktop-entry-validate returns error: value "Development" for string list key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" does not have a semicolon (';') as trailing character – Fleuv – 2016-04-21T15:43:14.490

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