Perhaps you want to run a certain command often, or have a program installed that for some reason wasn't added to the app drawer. Well, if you know the command to start it, that can be fixed easily.

You'll want to go to /home/phablet/.local/share/applications (image 1). Can't find it? Make sure you have show hidden files enabled. Here you'll see a lot of .desktop files - create a new one of the form name.desktop. Note that this is not the name you'll see in the app drawer, we'll specify that later.

Open the file with a text editor. I can recommend Seabass2 if you don't have one yet. The first line should be:

[Desktop Entry]

Then we need to define four values: Name, Exec, Icon and Type. For example:

Name=Discord_Libertine
Exec=libertine-launch -i focal-3 "armcord"
Icon=/home/phablet/Downloads/Discord.png
Type=Application

If you're unsure what type to use, try Application.
Replace the values with what suits your usecase, of course. There are some more things you can specify if you want:

Terminal=false
Comment=Launch Armcord inside Libertine

And so on. These have, as far as I can tell, no effect.

And that's it! Save, refresh the app drawer by pulling down, and it should show up just fine.

The folder where you have to make the .desktop file:

An example file:

Discord_Libertine in the app drawer:

Hello, I'm fairly enthousiastic about the entire Linux project. I'm trying to learn some qml because I like coding and am studying the equivalent of computer sciences. Hopefully I can offer some hands-on help somday

@fairose said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124 call for questions.:

Thank you all for putting so much effort in developing this free operating system.

Second that

There was some controversy with snap. Is it anything we should be worried about?

Lot of people have been asking about banking apps, I found one that works it's called Bunq
You'll need Gapps though as it is only available on the Play store

@danfro said in Add a launcher to the app drawer to run a command:

I actually had to add the line with "Type=Application" before the script launcher would show up in the launcher..

I'll move it to the top part then, thanks for the feedback!

Hurray for 150 Q&As!

Regarding the recent UT Noble upgrade, would you recommend people using only UT as a daily driver upgrade yet, or wait for Noble to be a bit more "stable"? Specifically for FP4 as that's what I'm using
Second question, regarding apps on Noble: will Focal apps work on Noble? I remember many Xenial apps stopped working and had to be upgraded to Focal.
Many thanks!

Re: Waydroid folders > Where in UT ?

What it says in the title. You can navigate to /home/phablet/.local/share/waydroid, and see the "data" folder, but on tapping it it says "Can not access data" (see picture).

In terminal, it is possible to continue farther, but only as root.

Perhaps you want to run a certain command often, or have a program installed that for some reason wasn't added to the app drawer. Well, if you know the command to start it, that can be fixed easily.

You'll want to go to /home/phablet/.local/share/applications (image 1). Can't find it? Make sure you have show hidden files enabled. Here you'll see a lot of .desktop files - create a new one of the form name.desktop. Note that this is not the name you'll see in the app drawer, we'll specify that later.

Open the file with a text editor. I can recommend Seabass2 if you don't have one yet. The first line should be:

[Desktop Entry]

Then we need to define four values: Name, Exec, Icon and Type. For example:

Name=Discord_Libertine
Exec=libertine-launch -i focal-3 "armcord"
Icon=/home/phablet/Downloads/Discord.png
Type=Application

If you're unsure what type to use, try Application.
Replace the values with what suits your usecase, of course. There are some more things you can specify if you want:

Terminal=false
Comment=Launch Armcord inside Libertine

And so on. These have, as far as I can tell, no effect.

And that's it! Save, refresh the app drawer by pulling down, and it should show up just fine.

The folder where you have to make the .desktop file:

An example file:

Discord_Libertine in the app drawer:

With regards to app development:
My desktop os is linux mint, which currently only goes to version 21.2. Will this be a problem when compiling apps, once 24 releases?

Similarly: will the clickable format become obsolete once snap is fully integrated?

There was some controversy with snap. Is it anything we should be worried about?

@fairose said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124 call for questions.:

Thank you all for putting so much effort in developing this free operating system.

Second that

Is the goal to eventually make apt useable (like on desktop), or will it forever be break-your-ut territory?

@Lakotaubp I was holding the power key as well. Managed to reinstall using UBports installer, works again!