Showing posts with label matlab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matlab. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Launcher in Panel

The following was found in the terminal launcher for Opera:


[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=opera
Exec=/home/myusername/lib/opera/9.64/opera
Name[en_US]=opera
Name=opera
Icon=opera
I am particulary interested in 
"
Terminal=false
"
It should be some where around the workout for ubuntu:
http://webloggerdai.blogspot.com/2009/04/point-matlab-application-to.html

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Point Matlab application to "applications menu" in Ubuntu

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Matlab
Comment=Matlab
Exec=matlab -desktop
Icon=/home/urusername/matlab/X11/icons/matlab64c_icon.xpmTerminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;

Save above file as matlab.desktop.


how to make link from application menu

I saved it in desktop as matlab.desktop
go superuser.
/home/yourusername/Desktop# cp matlab.desktop /usr/share/applications

then voila!


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How did I get the softlink to matlab appication:

sudo ln -s /home/yourusername/matlab/bin/matlab /usr/bin/matlab

creates a new link which enables to launch of matlab without junk folder list. like: Exec=/home/yourusername/matlab/bin/matlab
before that I deleted the matlab link found in /usr/bin/matlab
by rm /usr/bin/matlab

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Moreover, I could drag and drop to panel for shortcut