a shortcut to run Eclipse on Ubuntu Unity and to register Eclipse with the left Launcher
In your terminal,
cd ~/.local/share/applications
wget https://gist.github.com/raw/2922285/eclipse.desktop
chmod u+x eclipse.desktop
vim eclipse.desktop
# edit eclipse.desktop to replace "<ECLIPSE_DIR>" with your eclipse directoryxdg-open ~/.local/share/applications to open
the directory with the file browsereclipse.desktop on Unity Launcher| # Eclipse Shortcut | |
| # https://gist.github.com/2922285 | |
| [Desktop Entry] | |
| Type=Application | |
| Name=Eclipse | |
| Comment=Eclipse Integrated Development Environment | |
| Icon=<ECLIPSE_DIR>/icon.xpm | |
| Exec=<ECLIPSE_DIR>/eclipse | |
| Terminal=false | |
| Categories=Development;IDE;Java; | |
| StartupWMClass=Eclipse |
It worked, thank you!
Didn't work for me..
eclipse is installed in "/home/username/eclipse/eclipse-jee-2019-03/eclipse" directory
i tried the same procedure but it didn't work
@Maliksajad004, Sometimes it does not work straight.
Below is how you can fix this problem
$gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
you will see something like -
['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop']
Now add eclipse.desktop in this your favorite app using :
$gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop','eclipse.desktop']"
You will see the eclipse icon on the favorite bar and when you click on it, It should work.
Thanks. It worked for me.
Thank you ! 👍
Worked on Ubuntu 18.04. Thanks!
Worked on Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks for creating that repository, I loved!
Thank you, works for Spring Tool Suite 👍
Didn't work for me..
eclipse is installed in "/home/username/eclipse/eclipse-jee-2019-03/eclipse" directory
i tried the same procedure but it didn't work
In your case Exec value will be
Exec=home/username/eclipse/eclipse-jee-2019-03/eclipse/eclipse
Thank you , it's work
It worked for me on 18.04 except for the drag and drop of eclipse.desktop to the launcher.
Instead, click on Activities, search for Eclipse, right click -> Add to favourites.
Thank you , it's work!
Thanks
This is great! I was struggling with the default installation because the respective button always opened a new button on the side bar of Ubuntu for every opened workspace and there was no way to know, which button belonged to which workspace. In this one you all active workspaces just in one button and select them by their names.
@Maliksajad004, Sometimes it does not work straight.
Below is how you can fix this problem $gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps you will see something like - ['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop']
Now add eclipse.desktop in this your favorite app using : $gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop','eclipse.desktop']"
You will see the eclipse icon on the favorite bar and when you click on it, It should work.
that did the trick.. neat :)
Thank you