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 >
