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I am a total newbie to Ubuntu and just installed it yesterday, so please explain it, so someone who almost never used Linux can understand.

I would like to not have to open a separate Terminal to open stuff like Teamspeak and FileZilla and have to keep it open.

To open FileZilla I just have to run filezilla in Terminal. For Teamspeak I have to navigate into that folder and run ./ts3client_runscript.sh and then have to keep it open. How can I make desktop shortcuts for each the single command with Filezilla and the SH file for Teamspeak and make it, so I won't have a thousand terminals open the whole time?

And before anyone asks: I have the default desktop environment of the current Ubuntu LTS version. No idea how it's called. Would be great to know. Google just tells me three different ones.

Bilesh Ganguly
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OfficialCRUGG
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You may create desktop shortcut for often used programs, no need to open terminal. Create shortcut by this commands:

cd ~/Desktop
nano filezilla.desktop

And put this into editor

[Desktop Entry]
Terminal=false
Name=filezilla
Exec=filezilla
Type=Application

For Teamspeek use following Exec= line in desktop shortcut:

Exec=bash -c 'cd /folderofteamspeek && ./ts3client_runscript.sh'
LeonidMew
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You can append an ampersand after the command like filezilla & which will open the app in background and can keep using the terminal but you won't get to see verbose output of the program on terminal.

Otherwise open the program normally and press ctrl-z to suspend the program and run bg to run it in the background and keep using the terminal.

You can launch GUI softwares like filezilla by double clicking on the app icon without needing to launch it from terminal.

Yasir
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I think these distributions work with application maps, who are situated in /usr/share/applicatios and in /home/(user login name)/.local/share/applications where you have to put formentioned .desktop files. In your file browser you can't see the /home/(user login name)/.local/share/applications map if you don't have the option "show hidden files' activated... but thats a file-manager preferences/options story :)

frank mc peeters
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