Unity Dash – How to Add Sublime Text to Dash

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I tried 2 types of links and it still I cant add it! I use the unregistered 64 version. On Ubuntu forums and external site

Why is it not coming in the dash board. What is wrong? I even restarted the system to check if it came after the restart after the .desktop file. While the solution listed on the ubuntu forum asks to enter "main menu", there is no match in mine.

Best Answer

Open Terminal and write this command

sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop

This will create a file name sublime.desktop in the user/share/applications/ folder and open it for you.

Copy paste the following content in it and save the file

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Sublime Text 2
*#Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName, so we reuse the KDE strings.*
*#From Ubuntu's language-pack-kde-XX-base packages, version 9.04-20090413.*
GenericName=Text Editor 
Exec=sublime
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/lib/Sublime Text 2/Icon/48x48/sublime_text.png
Type=Application
Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=sublime -n
TargetEnvironment=Unity

You will see the Sublime-Text icon in the dash-board. right click the icon and click

Lock in Launcher

Step 1

Create the file /usr/share/applications/sublime-handler.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sublime Text 2 URL Handler
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Handle URL Scheme txmt://
Exec=/home/<your_user>/bin/sublime-handler %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/txmt;
Icon=sublime-text-2
Categories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;
Name[en_US]=Sublime Text 2 URL Handler

Step 2: Update the MIME-types database

$ sudo update-desktop-database

Step 3: Create the ~/bin/sublime-handler file

#!/usr/bin/env bash

request=${1:23}               # Delete the first 23 characters
request=${request//%2F//}     # Replace %2F with /
request=${request/&line=/:}   # Replace &line= with :
request=${request/&column=/:} # Replace &column= with :
sublime-text-2 $request       # Launch ST2

Then make it executable : $ chmod +x sublime-handler

Step 4: Test a txmt:// file

If that dosen't work, say me, I'll try to help you.

Ubuntu – Sublime text unusual title

Not sure how it could happen, but some process must have either created- or edited the local sublime-text.desktop file.

How to solve?

If you installed Sublime Text globally (and thus the file /usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop exists) simply remove the local one:

rm ~/.local/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop

and log out/in to make Unity find the global one.

If /usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop does not exist, open the local one:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop

and look for the first line, starting with Name=. Then replace the line by:

Name=Sublime Text