There are a lot of different proposed solutions. If this still doesn’t work for you, check this post on ‘Ask Ubuntu’. Edit: when trying for another program, this only worked after I made the. I read somewhere you may need to restart unity (type unity –replace in the command line), but I didn’t need to do that. Icon=/home/paulo/Documents/Design/Logos/foxitreader.png The configuration file is a simple text file which looks like: Įxec=/home/paulo/Software/Office/Foxit_reader/FoxitReader %u local/share/applications in your home folder. This is a text file which you need to place in the folder. To integrate the program in the dash, you need to create a desktop configuration file. This runs without problems (go to the folder where you downloaded and uncompressed the executable, and run. When you are running Ubuntu amd64, your only option is to download the (compressed) executable. You can download a deb installation file from their webpage, but this only works on Ubuntu i386.
But what if you want to run a program that is not installed the normal way?īelow is an example how I solved this for Foxit reader.
When you install a program from the software center it will be automatically available in the Dash. The extraction creates an executable file ( FoxitReader2._Server_圆4_enu_n). Simply double click on the executable file and follow the installation steps on the screen.How to add an application to the Ubuntu dash.
Go to the Foxit website and download the binary package for the Linux distribution (distro) you’re using. (For this post I would be demonstrating on Ubuntu 16). The file should be in this format: FoxitReader_version_ ( FoxitReader2._Server_圆4_enu_).Īfter a successful downloading, extract the the compressed archive. By right-clicking on the archive and the selecting “Extract here” from the drop-down options (To learn how to extract compressed archives on the command line read this). Note: there are some features that are available in the Windows version which are absent in the ubuntu version (e.g. The text-to-speech, TTS, feature – at least out-of-the-box). * Multiple document tab viewing (my favourite). * Encrypt and digitally signing documents. And most importantly it’s free of to download. Apart from it basic functions of creating, editing, and viewing PDF documents. Foxit Reader has awesome features like It makes reading portable document format (PDF) documents/files enjoyable in many ways.
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