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  • I did the steps listed and I still do not see it in the launcher with an icon. I assume in Debian you can't add an icon directly to that "Activities" launcher pannel on the left, you just have to search for it once you've clicked "Activities"? The picture display is also not working. If I double click the .desktop, or click it on after searching on the "Activities" menu file it runs, so it's just not displaying it in the launcher properly. Any ideas? Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 19:58
  • Fixed it. Apparently it just wasn't allowing me to save icons in the /usr/share/icons folder. So I made a folder within that icons folder and put the image there. After I modified my path it worked. Thanks Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 20:09
  • I know this is old, but what does the last directory do in the sudo ln -s command?. Want to do the same but my directory is different (/home/mariel/Downloads/Programas/VESTA-x86_64/VESTA) and don't know what to replace that with. Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 21:56
  • @Mariel It's just to create a symbolic link to the targeted script to avoid typing long. If your executable file is VESTA then you can create a symlink to /usr/bin sudo ln -s /home/mariel/Downloads/Programas/VESTA-x86_64/VESTA /usr/bin/VESTA Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 2:53
  • I did the command without the last part and the launcher still created. Was the last part necessary? Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 13:30