Why do portable app icons disappear from Unity launcher after restart?
By John Campbell •
I downloaded SublimeText and placed it in my home folder. I locked sublimetext to the Unity launcher, but when I restart my PC the icon disappears from the launcher.
Why is this happening? Can I solve this somehow?
41 Answer
A .desktop file is needed. One way is to install sublime text editor via webupd8 ppa.
Version 3 (url):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installerVersion 2 (url, not tested, but should work):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-textThis adds a .desktop file to /usr/share/applications/.
Alternatively, add a .desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications/ manually. This should point to your binary.
This is the .desktop file from version 3 on my system:
# cat /usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Sublime Text
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text %F
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/plain;
Icon=sublime-text
Categories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=Window;Document;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.22
[Desktop Action Window]
Name=New Window
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text -n
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
[Desktop Action Document]
Name=New File
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --command new_file
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
