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@ John Dee
2025-02-17 17:39:31I keep a large collection of music on a local file server and use DeaDBeeF for listening. I've never been able to pin DeadBeeF to the dock in Ubuntu, and it's always had the ugly default icon.
I asked DeepSeek for help, and it turned out to be easier than I thought.
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~/.local/share/applications/deadbeef.desktop:bash [Desktop Entry] Name=DeadBeeF Music Player Comment=Music Player Exec=/home/user/Apps/deadbeef-1.9.6/deadbeef Icon=/home/user/Apps/deadbeef-1.9.6/deadbeef.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=AudioVideo;Player; - Make
deadbeef.desktopexecutable:bash chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/deadbeef.desktop
And just like that, DeadBeeF has an icon and I can pin it to the dock.
.desktopfiles are part of the Freedesktop.org standards. They're used in most popular desktop environments like GNOME, KDE and XFCE.Tor Browser has the same issue, but it comes with a
.desktopfile already, so it only needs to by symlinked to the applications folder:ln -s ~/Apps/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ - Create