Add application icons and executables to gnome
This is partly taken from : 1. create an executable sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse sudoedit /usr/bin/eclipse #!/bin/sh #export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/" export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse" $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $* 2. create a desktop icon sudoedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Comment=Eclipse IDE Exec=eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;Application;Development; StartupNotify=true