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I'm a new user in Elementary OS (0.4.1 Loki) and I find it really amazing. But I have a problem that I cannot resolve. I installed xampp for linux and all works fine but I wanted to put it in the plank with the others applications. Anyway, I find some tutorial and all say that I have to create the directory:

/usr/share/applications/lampp.desktop

and put inside it lampp.desktop

Now I have the icon but when I click on it nothing appear. Seems like it's loading for a bit but nothing happen after that shot time.

I also try to replace:

Exec=gksu ./opt ...

Exec=gksudo ./opt ...

Exec=./ ... (in this case no icon appear)

How can I solve it?

I'm sorry if I say something wrong but I'm also new in Linux and still learning the basics.

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I believe you also need to specify a Path in the .desktop file. Use this image as an example.

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If you need to run it as root, add gksu before the command:

Exec=gksu /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.sh
Path=/opt/lampp

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  • I still don't understand why in the tutorial there wasn't the Path line. Thank you so much, now it works! Anyway, if I could ask, what is the difference between sudo and gksu in this case? Why with the first one it didn't open?
    – Peto
    Commented May 31, 2017 at 6:19
  • Glad it worked. Simply put, gksu displays the password prompt window, while sudo works only from Terminal.
    – Vlad
    Commented May 31, 2017 at 7:43
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you can try to add the menu using menulibre

sudo apt update && sudo apt install menulibre

add costum menu there, and drag the menu from slingshot to plank

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I would check your exec path. You have ./opt, you should not have a . in front of your root. Could be why nothing is executing, linux can't find it.

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