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I have installed Stencyl on ubuntu and it is perfectly working fine from terminal commands, after making some amendments in Stencyl file. Now i want to make desktop entry for the Stencyl and wish to put the icon in the launchpad, i have prepared stencyl.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ as

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Stencyl
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/Stencyl/Stencyl
Terminal=true
Icon=/opt/Stencyl/icon.xpm
Comment=Game Development Environment
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Development;IDE
Name[en]=stencyl.desktop

and have drag and drop to the launchpad, Icon is not executing Stencyl application, if i run the same application from terminal, it is working fine and giving following results also

amulbhatia@Nadar:/opt/Stencyl$ ./Stencyl
[LOG] The Stencyl workspace is: /home/amulbhatia/
[LOG] lang/locales.txt
[LOG] Locales: {de=German, it=Italian, test=test, pt=Portuguese, fr=French, en=English, ru=Russian, gr=Greek, es=Spanish}
[LOG] Reading... global-phrases
[LOG] Bad - Line #: 98
[LOG] Finished reading lang/en/global-phrases.lang
[LOG] Reading... global-errors
[LOG] Finished reading lang/en/global-errors.lang
[LOG] Reading... global-menu
[LOG] Finished reading lang/en/global-menu.lang
[LOG] Reading... global-welcome
.
.
.

Any help in preparing desktop entry is highly appreciated

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  • You should set Terminal=false as it's not a console application. Also, NoDisplay=false is not required, and Name[en] is not meant to be the file name of the .desktop file. It should also be Stencyl there (or you can just remove that line as well). – dobey Sep 24 '14 at 17:48
  • @dobey - i did the same thing, still not working.. [Desktop Entry] Name=Stencyl Type=Application Exec=~/opt/Stencyl/Stencyl Terminal=false Icon=/opt/Stencyl/icon.xpm Comment=Game Development Environment NoDisplay=false Categories=Development;IDE Name[en]=Stencyl Do you know how to execute ./file from different directory, because of this exec is not able to execute the Stencyl file (as it is executable file) – Aman Sep 24 '14 at 18:09
  • If i try to run from other directory i get this error - amulbhatia@Nadar:/usr/share/applications$ /opt/Stencyl/Stencyl Error: Unable to access jarfile ./sw.jar May be because of sw.jar the .desktop file is not executing, please help – Aman Sep 24 '14 at 18:15
  • Thanks for your time, i wrote a shell script and executed the script from .desktop file, and same is working fine from launchpad now, may be otherway, but my work has been done, thanks for your time – Aman Sep 24 '14 at 18:47
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You need to add Path=/opt/Stencyl to the .desktop file.

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