{"id":971,"date":"2014-04-04T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:39:21","slug":"ubuntu-unity-application-launchers-for-intellij-idea-and-pycharm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/ubuntu-unity-application-launchers-for-intellij-idea-and-pycharm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Unity application launchers for IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I got Ubuntu Unity to show application launchers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/download\/\">&gt;IntelliJ IDEA<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/pycharm\/download\/\">PyCharm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In $HOME\/.local\/share\/applications, add an IDEA.desktop file with these contents:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/usr\/bin\/env xdg-open\r\n[Desktop Entry]\r\nVersion=13\r\nName=IntelliJ IDEA\r\nGenericName=Text Editor\r\nExec=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.sh\r\nTerminal=false\r\nIcon=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.png\r\nType=Application\r\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;\">Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development\r\n<\/span>X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow\r\nIcon[en_US]=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.png<\/pre>\n<p>And a PyCharm.desktop file:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/usr\/bin\/env xdg-open\r\n[Desktop Entry]\r\nVersion=3\r\nName=PyCharm\r\nExec=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/pycharm-3.0.1\/bin\/pycharm.sh\r\nTerminal=false\r\nIcon=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/pycharm-3.0.1\/bin\/pycharm.png\r\nType=Application\r\nCategories=TextEditor;IDE;Development\r\nX-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow\r\nIcon[en_US]=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/pycharm-3.0.1\/bin\/pycharm.png<\/pre>\n<p>I use the default keyboard shortcuts, and on Linux, CTRL-ALT left arrow doesn&#8217;t work with PyCharm or IDEA (jumps back to where I was before I followed a symbol with CTRL-B). I&#8217;ve found that CTRL-WINDOWS-ALT left arrow does work. Same thing for many other shortcuts that use CTRL-ALT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I got Ubuntu Unity to show application launchers for &gt;IntelliJ IDEA and\u00a0PyCharm In $HOME\/.local\/share\/applications, add an IDEA.desktop file with these contents: #!\/usr\/bin\/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Version=13 Name=IntelliJ IDEA GenericName=Text Editor Exec=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.sh Terminal=false Icon=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.png Type=Application Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow Icon[en_US]=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/idea-IC-135.480\/bin\/idea.png And a PyCharm.desktop file: #!\/usr\/bin\/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Version=3 Name=PyCharm Exec=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/pycharm-3.0.1\/bin\/pycharm.sh Terminal=false Icon=\/home\/YourHomeDirectory\/pycharm-3.0.1\/bin\/pycharm.png Type=Application Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/ubuntu-unity-application-launchers-for-intellij-idea-and-pycharm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu Unity application launchers for IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-programming","category-tech","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}