On Sat, 2016-06-11 at 20:29 +0000, Tama McGlinn wrote: > Dear debian users, > > I've been trying to get a custom desktop file to work nicely with > Gnome's > system, so that I can press Super and type "blender", and/or dock it > to the > menu for easy access, instead of having to navigate to that desktop > file. > > I followed the instructions to compile blender from source > <https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender>, and it > comes > with a .desktop file that wouldn't work because it assumes blender is > installed as a system default; I've edited the command to include the > absolute path to the compiled blender executable, and it works. (I've > attached the desktop file) > > However, even after moving that .desktop file into > ~/.local/applications/ > and rebooting, the Super dash can't find blender - not even when > clicking > "Show Applications > All". > > Anyone know how to do this? I tried the .desktop file on my system, just replaced the line that says "Exec=/home/carmen/code/blender-git/build_linux/bin/blender &" with an executable on my system, and it shows up fine. Might be a problem with your blender binary not being marked as executable? (Reboot should never be necessary, valid desktop files should be picked up by the shell during runtime.) HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se
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