Shortcuts for program that is run by a terminal

**herculpirate** · February 24th, 2020

I have installed a program called Anaconda which is a Data Science program.
To run it I am to open a terminal and type "anaconda-navigator"

and the program runs well.

But I would like to have a shortcut on my desktop or my taskbar where I can click and get this running.
I am currently running Linux Mint 19.3.

Please help.

Thanks

HP

**CatKiller** · February 24th, 2020

The launchers on the desktop, panels, menus, docks, or whatever, are .desktop files, which are just text files with a particular structure. Using Terminal=true should open your normal terminal application and run the command you've specified in the Exec= line.

**wildmanne39** · February 24th, 2020

Thread moved to MINT a more appropriate sub-forum.

**herculpirate** · February 24th, 2020

Thank you for the reply

I have the following in the .desktop file
The error i get is.. there is an error launching the application.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Anaconda
Comment=Anaconda Navigator
Exec=anaconda-navigator
Icon=/home/hpws/Pictures/anaconda.jpg
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application;

**CatKiller** · February 24th, 2020

If anaconda-navigator isn't in your $PATH, you may have to specify the full path to launch it. You may also need to specify Path= to set the working directory to whatever your application uses.

I don't think you need the "#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open" at the start, either.

**herculpirate** · February 24th, 2020

All I need is that a Terminal with a command

Code:

anaconda-navigator

is executed.
What do you think I should have in that file....

**herculpirate** · February 24th, 2020

I got it.

Here it is.
Thanks

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.9.7
Name=Anaconda
Comment=Anaconda Navigator
Exec=/home/hpws/anaconda3/bin/anaconda-navigator
Icon=/home/hpws/anaconda3/bin/anaconda.jpg
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application;