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</style></head><body><div>Thank you for your help - that's solved it.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">David</font></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2025-01-06 at 09:19 -0600, Victor Forberger wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 1/6/25 09:08, David Sumbler wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I have just installed Android Studio in a folder in my home directory. <br></div><div> I added this to my PATH in .bashrc, and sure enough Android Studio <br></div><div>launches correctly when I type 'studio' at a bash prompt.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But Android Studio doesn't show up under the "All Applications" in the <br></div><div>whisker menu. How do I create a new launcher, or persuade xfce4 to <br></div><div>create a new one?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You need to create a .desktop file for the app, with that .desktop file <br></div><div>located in your ~/.local/share/applications folder.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example, for the audacity appimage file I have in my .local <br></div><div>directory, I have the following Audacity.desktop file in my <br></div><div>~/.local/share/applications folder.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>[Desktop Entry]<br></div><div>Version=1.1<br></div><div>Type=Application<br></div><div>Name=Audacity<br></div><div>Comment=Audacity sound editor<br></div><div>Icon=audacity<br></div><div>TryExec=/home/victor/.local/audacity.AppImage<br></div><div>Exec=/home/victor/.local/audacity.AppImage<br></div><div>Actions=<br></div><div>Categories=Audio;<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>With this .desktop file, Audacity shows up in Whisker under the audio <br></div><div>category of applications (sometimes, you may need to go into Whisker and <br></div><div>edit/save the entry for it to appear in the proper category of <br></div><div>applications).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Victor<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Victor Forberger<br></div><div><a href="mailto:vforberger@fastmail.fm">vforberger@fastmail.fm</a><br></div><div>blog: <a href="http://linuxatty.wordpress.com">http://linuxatty.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>