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Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fixed; thank you both! I removed the zipped tar installation, and > installed the debian version. > > I've been using Ubuntu now for about 17 years and (I think) that's the > first time I've given myself to understand how to install a debian package. > Perhaps I'll remember that. > > On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 18:49, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, 4 May 2025 at 23:15, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 08:00, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Perhaps I forgot something simple, but it appears that I cannot lock >> the facility to start NB from the Ubuntu taskbar that comes out from the >> left of screen like I could with NB 18; I can only start it from a CLI. >> > >> > A slight correction perhaps. It might be of note to know that what I >> could do is launch NetBeans from the Ubuntu launcher. That is, while using >> NB 18, I could press the "meta" (Windows) key, type the letter "N" and >> press return. I would like to be able to do this again with NB 24. >> >> If you're using the zip install in user space, you can also set up a >> .desktop file to run the IDE and pin to the taskbar. >> >> Create a new file at >> ~/.local/share/applications/apache-netbeans-ide-25.desktop The name >> is important - it must match (but lower case and hyphenated) the main >> window title of the IDE. >> >> Inside the desktop file put the following text, replacing the NetBeans >> path with the absolute path to your IDE installation. >> >> [Desktop Entry] >> Encoding=UTF-8 >> Name=Apache NetBeans 25 >> Exec=/PATH/TO/NETBEANS/bin/netbeans >> Icon=/PATH/TO/NETBEANS/nb/apache-netbeans.svg >> Version=1.0 >> Type=Application >> Terminal=false >> >> You'll have to update the file and filename for each new version. >> >> Hope that helps, if you want to use the zip rather than deb. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Neil >> >
