If the system is generating .desktop files automatically, then it should
generate different desktop files for different binaries that are in
different locations. What if I run two programs that have absolutely
nothing to do with each other but whose executable file happens to have
the same name?!?
Yes, when you ran the manually-installed version of Eclipse from within
Unity, a local .desktop file was created automatically. This is a
requirement of being able to lock the application to the Launcher and
was implemented as a much-demanded feature.
When you manually removed that version of Ecl
Oh, yes, there it is.
It doesn't show up with "sudo find / -name eclipse.desktop", that's why I
couldn't find it.
One mistery is how it got created (but maybe Eclipse itself, the one I unzipped
manually, created it when run the first time).
Anyway, if you run some executable, then you right-clic
Are you absolutely sure there is no eclipse.dekstop file under
~/.local/share/applications anywhere?
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Title:
What you lock to launcher is not wh
Well, I'm noticing one more general thing that I didn't expect: if I run some
arbitrary executable and then right-click on its icon on the launcher and do
"lock to launcher", it does lock the icon to launcher but that icon is
completely useless!!!
The "lock to launcher" function seems to be ill-
