Hi
I have already successfully compiled lazarus from source and added it to my Application Launcher.
It was necessary to compile from source because I am on a Pinebook Pro with an ARM64/aarch64 processor.
I have a working ~/.local/share/applications/lazarus.desktop file
How can I get a nicer icon?
I tried editing the Icon entry like this
Icon=~/.icons/lazarus-icon.png
but it doesn’t show.
if I use this entry
Icon=text-editor
then I get an icon but, but obviously not a nice one.
The local path (~) is probably not expanded.
Try replacing the tilde by the full path that you want to use i.e. /home/yourusername/.icons/lazarus-icon.png
Thank you for replying.
I swapped out the ~ for /home/philip but it made no difference.
The other thing is that the exec= line also has a ~ in it and lazarus does execute when I click on it.
There must be some other reason.
The png file is 256x256 pixels; is that too big?
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