Creating link for gnome application launcher

2024-04-29 106 words One minute

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| Ubuntu 22.04

Xelis wallet

Download the package and extract:

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VER=0.0.2
curl -Lo /tmp/genesix_linux.zip https://github.com/xelis-project/xelis-genesix-wallet/releases/download/$VER/genesix_linux.zip
unzip -d ~/Apps/xel/ /tmp/genesix_linux.zip

We can download the icon and put it here as we will need to make desktop icon later For example save it from https://xelis.io/favicon.ico on /home/goto/Apps/xel/ with name favicon.ico

To make desktop icon for xel, we can make a file in usr/share/applications:

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cat <<EOF > /usr/share/applications/xel.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=xel
Icon=/home/goto/Apps/xel/favicon.ico
Exec="/home/goto/Apps/xel/bundle/genesix"
Comment=xel-genesis
Categories=Wallet;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
EOF

Now, we can find the icon in application launcher menu by search for xel