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Creating a Desktop Shortcut Manually

You can reate a shortcut manually by creating a .desktop file. Here’s how:

Create a New File ~/Desktop/myapp.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=My Application
Exec=/path/to/application
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false

Make It Executable:

chmod +x ~/Desktop/myapp.desktop