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I am having problems with the IntelliJ installation. The installer wont create a shortcut so I do have to start IntelliJ every time with the "./idea.sh" command. Which is pretty enoying if you everytime have to navigate there to start IntelliJ.

Version: 2018.2 Build: 182.3684.101

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2

If I could get some advices/help I would be very thankful. I am relatively new to Linux so I would really love an instruction :S

Dhaasu Entertainment
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It is quite simple, in the main menu before opening a project there is a quick setting which will add IntelliJ as shortcut in Ubuntu. Go to "Configure" in the lower right corner and then select "Create Desktop entry".

Picture showing how to create a shortcut on Ubuntu

Kulfy
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Dominik K
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For recent versions of Idea(~2024) the options are here

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Abdullah Mohammad Motiullah
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As an alternative to @Dominik's answer, you can take the command line approach. Assuming that your IntelliJ installation files reside in /opt/idea/bin,

Create a Desktop Entry to show up in Activities

  1. Create the file /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop. touch, vi or nano should work, if you have sudo enabled.

  2. In that file, enter this:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Version=13.0
    Type=Application
    Terminal=false
    Icon[en_US]=/opt/idea/bin/idea.png
    Name[en_US]=IntelliJ Idea
    Exec=/opt/idea/bin/idea.sh
    Name=Idea
    Icon=/opt/idea/bin/idea.png
  1. To make absolutely sure you have the right permissions, run the following two commands:
chmod 0644 /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop
chown root:root /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop

Et voilà!

Make a shortcut on your local Desktop

  1. Copy the file you created above into your local Desktop directory

    cp /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop /home/[user.name]/Desktop/

  2. Adjust file permissions as appropriate

    chmod 0755 /home/[user.name]/Desktop/idea.desktop

Et voilà!

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