How to create Chrome/Chromium web application desktop shortcut?

Question

I'm not able to create desktop/Unity short cut for web applications using Chromium/Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.

Answer 1

After some research on the internet I found how to create web apps desktop short cuts for Google Chrome/Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 12.10.

1. Install the application you want from Chrome Webstore and right click on the app icon and select create desktop short-cut.

2. It will creates a desktop short-cut and it will not work on Ubuntu 12.10, we need to edit the
**chrome-applicationid here-Default.desktop like file**

3. Open the file using Gedit using this command

~$ gedit Desktop/chrome-aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj-Default.desktop

(change the file name to yours application ID)

4. It will open the Gedit text editor and you will need to change first two lines of the text

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0

to

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8

5. Finally save the changes and you will be noticed the change of icon in the desktop and double click on it to run.

Time for playing Angry Birds!

Answer 2

Fixing Chromium webapp shortcuts in Lubuntu 12.10 http://computers4christians.org/Chromium-app-shortcut-fix-lubuntu.html

Answer 3

Open a terminal window (alt+ctrl+t) and type:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

Once you are done installing the above package,run this command to create desktop shortcuts.

gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop

once you enter that command a new window will popup

Let the Type remain as application.

Name:Chrome

command:/usr/bin/google-chrome or you could also browse to the particular location

and click on ok. Your desktop ikon will be created