Favorite on Launcher

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 16:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 15:49, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > 01 March 2021  at 13:47, Colin Law wrote:
> > Re: Favorite on Launcher (at least in part)
> >
> > >On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 15:23, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> > ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> In Bionic I just made a app.desktop file, put it in
> >
> > >> .local\share\applications
> >
> > >That is the right place, except that it is forward slashes of course.
> >
> > Jumping between Windows & Ubuntu will do that to you ;-)
> >
> > >> but even then nothing shows on the launcher
> >
> > >Where exactly do you expect it to appear?
> >
> > Below the last pinned app (VLC) in the launcher
> >
> > >If you hit the Win key (or click Activities) and search for it does it find
> > >it?  If so you can pin it to the start menu from there.
> >
> > I can find wine but not the app (that wine would run)
> >
> > >Have you made it executable?
> >
> > Yes
>
> It won't automatically appear in the launcher, you have to pin it there.
>
> It ought to find it if you search for the file name, I think.
>
> I had not paid attention to the fact that it is a Wine app.  If you
> make a shortcut for a normal app does it work ok?
> You could post the file here and we could try it.
>
> Colin

Have you tried a reboot since you put it in .local/share/applications?
It ought to be enough to log out/in but I have had problems with stuff
apparently cached somewhere.

Also try clearing the allow execution flag and reboot then try searching again.

Colin