I create a launcher for Ingtellij Idea by writing a custom .desktop file.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=13.3
Name=Intellij Idea
Comment=
Type=Application
Categories=Developoment,IDE
Exec=/home/sravinda/idea-IU-135.690/bin/idea.sh
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/home/sravinda/idea-IU-133.331/bin/idea.png
Name[en_US]=Intellij Idea
I put it to ~/.local/share/applications. I get and launcher and I added that to the unity side bar. When I launch the application another icon appear in the side bar. Which is different from other applications. There same icon represent the launched application with small bracket on left of the icon. Any one have idea why is that.
usr/bin/intlellij
forExec=
?ln -sf /home/sravinda/idea-IU-135.690/bin/idea /home/sravinda/bin/idea
, make the application fileidea.sh
executable, and simply run it by the commandidea
in theExec=
line. Then add the line at the end of the file's content:StartupWMClass=idea
. You may have to log out /in.