How to add Ubuntu 18.04 application icons to the desktop?

After ubuntu18.04 is installed, I open the application list and want to drag and drop the application icons to the desktop for use, but it fails. How do I put the icons in the application list on the desktop? In fact, we can find these application icon files and copy them directly to the desktop for use. Let’s take a look at the detailed tutorial below.

1. First enter the ubuntu18.04 desktop.

2. Right-click on the desktop to open the terminal.

3. Use the command to open the application icon file location.

nautilus /usr/share/applications

4. Then a file window will open, which is the application icon file (desktop file).

5. Here we can find the icon we need and drag it directly to the desktop, but dragging it to the desktop will display a desktop file.

6. We can right-click Properties on this file.

7. Switch to Permissions at the top, Check the at the bottom to allow file execution as a program.

8. Then you can double-click to open the file. When the window pops up, select Trust and Launch. Then we find that the file becomes an icon.

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