Thursday, July 28, 2016

What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available?


Please note that right now, most of the information contained below is outdated and cannot be updated. Be careful, most of this won't work on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer.




Creating a custom launcher for Unity is simple. Quicklists provide an easy and efficient way to quickly access commonly used tasks for a specific application.



NOTE: Starting with Ubuntu 11.10, this popup option has vanished. Launchers can now only be created by editing text files in your home folder.




Creating a custom launcher is easy.




  1. Right-click on your desktop and click create a launcher.

  2. Edit the .desktop file using a text editor. (More information can be found here and here.)



So, which custom launchers do you use on Unity?




Note: Please limit yourself to one custom launcher per answer. Also, please provide a screenshot of it in action.

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