How to create Xampp shortcut in Ubuntu's Start Menu (aka Dash)
Recently, I try to install Xampp on Ubuntu, after installing successfully, I recognized that Xampp is not showed up on Ubuntu start menu automatically, then I worked around and found out the solution to create Xampp shortcut on Start Menu.
- Firstly,
cd
to/usr/share/applications
then create a new file with extension is*.desktop
by opening the terminal then run this command:sudo touch xampp.desktop
. - Open the new file with super admin right by:
sudo gedit xampp.desktop
- Paste following to the file content:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XAMPP Control Panel
Comment=Start and Stop XAMPP
Exec=sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run
Icon=/opt/lampp/htdocs/favicon.ico
Categories=Application
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Exec
: Command to run the application (with Xampp you need sudo
right).
Terminal
: true
if you want to open terminal when running this application. With Xampp I set value is true
to type the password of sudo
when running the app.
- Save the file, now you have the Xampp shortcut available on start menu. Hit Windows button to check it :).