Launcher icon doesn't start MySQL workbench

Question

I recently upgraded from 14.04 to 14.10 and faced an issue with running queries on MySQL workbench but this answer on SOF solved it. This answer is about rebuilding the application after patching it's source, I did that successfully. But now I can't start workbench unless I run it from a terminal by running the command mysql-workbench

After starting it from the terminal, it's icon appears on the launcher, I right-click it and choose Lock to launcher. But after I close the application, and I click the icon to start the application again, it doesn't work !

I click it but nothing happens.

Answer 1

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and was in the need of the same thing, so I resolved with this with a couple of easy steps.

I launched MySQL from the command:mysql-workbench

I right clicked the icon and locked it to the launcher

In the terminal I ran the following:

gedit .local/share/applications/mysql-workbench-bin.desktop

I removed the Path which was pointing to /home/USER

Finally, I edited the Exec from mysql-workbench-bin to mysql-workbench

This is the final result:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=MySQL Workbench
Icon=mysql-workbench-bin
Exec=/usr/bin/mysql-workbench
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Mysql-workbench-bin
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
X-UnityGenerated=true

The only thing that I would just make sure that you have the right paths, other than that this should work.