Pycharm offers you to create a .desktop file on first run
When you start PyCharm for the first time, you will be offered the opportunity to set up desktop integration:
As you can see, you can tick: Create desktop entry (integrate in sytem menu)
This will (or would :)) create a .desktop
file, jetbrains-pycharm-ce.desktop
, in either /usr/share/applictions
or ~/.local/share/applications
, depending on if you chose For all users
or not.
What if you missed the message?
If you missed the message, you can simply temporarily rename the folder:
~/.PyCharm40
...and restart PyCharm
, since the absence of this folder will make PyCharm
assume you run it for the first time. Then, after things are done, you can simply remove the newly created ~/.PyCharm40
folder and rename the original folder.
From then on, you can simply run Pycharm
from its own launcher.
Note
Although the message in the window says: You can use File | Settings to configure any of these settings later
, I found a lot of settings options, but not the one to create a "Desktop Entry". It looks like the method above is the only option :)