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I have some applications installed with Wine and if I like to start them I always have to open them through the terminal.

Is there an option to put them into the application list as a shortcut so that I can open them through pressing super and search for the name?

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You need to create a .desktop launcher for the application in your ~/.local/share/applications directory.

To create a simple .desktop launcher manually, first create an empty text file, name it <application-name>.desktop in the aforementioned directory, and add the following lines to it

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Application Name
Comment=A short description of the application
Exec=command-to-run-application
Icon=/full/path/to/icon-file
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Note that in the Exec= line you need to use the full path to the command (i.e. /home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/folder/... instead of ~/folder/...).

Then save the file. If it doesn't appear in 'Show Applications' (or searching after pressing Super), log out and re-login.

Also there are user-friendly GUI tools to create a .desktop launcher, e.g.

  • Main Menu aka alacarte: install by running

    sudo apt install alacarte

  • MenuLibre: install by running

    sudo apt install menulibre

  • gnome-desktop-item-edit: need to install the gnome-panel package by running

    sudo apt install gnome-panel

    Note: gnome-desktop-item-edit is discarded since the Ubuntu 19.10 release.

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