Running JupyterLab as a desktop application on Linux

jupyter-lab-icon.md

GNOME Desktop icon for Jupyter Lab

Installation

1. Copy jupyter-lab.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications
2. Copy jupyter-lab.svg to ~/.local/share/icons
3. Restart gnome-desktop session (Alt+F2 -> restart)

jupyter-lab.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Jupyter Lab
Comment=Start Jupyter Lab server
Comment[ru_RU]=Запуск сервера Jupyter Lab
Exec=gnome-terminal --class jupyter-lab -x jupyter lab --port 8888
Icon=jupyter-lab
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jupyter-lab
Actions=open-browser

[Desktop Action open-browser]
Name=Open in browser
Name[ru_RU]=Открыть в браузере
Exec=xdg-open http://localhost:8888/lab

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Thanks, it works!

There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
Failed to execute child process “jupyter” (No such file or directory)

@wesleyroseno you might have installed Jupyter Lab using pipenv or Docker. My desktop icon just launches jupyter lab --port 8888. You can replace the launch command with the one that works for you or just reinstall Jupyter Lab using pip or conda.

I installed JupyterLab using conda and the above did not work for me. I kept getting There was an error creating the child process for this terminal errors. Changing the EXEC command to gnome-terminal --tab -- /bin/bash -c "~/.anaconda3/bin/jupyter-lab;bash" did the trick though. Note, ~/.anaconda3 is the default location for anaconda on my system, I think its normally ~/anaconda3. So you may need to modify the this command to your system is you have to use this fix.

@tannerlegvold That EXEC command did the trick for me. I installed it in the ~/aanaconda3 directory, so I had to slightly modify that command to this:

gnome-terminal --tab -- /bin/bash -c "~/anaconda3/bin/jupyter-lab;bash"

:~$ jupyter-notebook
:~$ sudo micro /home/<username>/.local/share/applications/jupyter-notebook.desktop

 [Desktop Entry]
Name=Jupyter Notebook
Comment=Run Jupyter Notebook
Exec=jupyter-notebook
Icon=jupyter-notebook
Type=Application
Categories=Development;Education
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jupyter-notebook
Actions=open-browser

and

:~$ jupyter-lab
:~$ sudo micro /home/<username>/.local/share/applications/jupyter-lab.desktop

 [Desktop Entry]
Name=Jupyter Lab
Comment=Run Jupyter Lab
Exec=jupyter-lab
Icon=jupyter-lab
Type=Application
Categories=Development;Education
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jupyter-lab
Actions=open-browser

Thanks a lot to @tannerlegvold for detailed instruction.
It didn't work for me (in Linux Lite), so I changed the EXEC row to below (and it's working):
Exec=/home/MY_PROFILE_NAME/anaconda3/bin/jupyter-lab

thank you, It worked for me. first of all, I downloaded my favorite icon from Google and downloaded it with the new name of Jupyter-lab.png
after that, I moved this png file to ~/.local/share/icons with this code on the terminal:
sudo mv jupyter-lab.png ~/.local/share/icons

I create a text on my desktop in the terminal with this code:
touch jupyter-lab.desktop
then I copied these lines to this file. (Change [MYCOMPUTERNAME] with your computer name)
[Desktop Entry] Name=Jupyter Lab Comment=Run Jupyter Lab Exec=/home/[MYCOMPUTERNAME]/anaconda3/bin/jupyter-lab Icon=/home/[MYCOMPUTERNAME]/.local/share/icons/Jupyter-lab.png Type=Application Categories=Development;Education StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass=jupyter-lab Actions=open-browser
then I copied this file to ~/.local/share/applications by this code on terminal:
mv jupyter-lab.desktop ~/.local/share/applications