Ubuntu – How to re-add the ‘Home Folder’ launcher item

Create Launcher for Terminal Application

Right click on the desktop and select Create Launcher from the menu:

Choose Application in Terminal and give the desired name and command to run (in this case vim).

Then simply drag and drop this icon on the Unity Launcher:

1. First create a desktop configuration file: gedit ~/.local/share/applications/folder-shortcut.desktop

2. Copy and paste the following content to launch nautilus (the file explorer) with the specified folder

   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=Home Folder
   Comment=Open YOURFOLDER
   Exec=nautilus YOURFOLDER
   Icon=folder
   Terminal=false
   StartupNotify=true
   Type=Application
   OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
   Categories=GNOME;GTK;Core;
   X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
   X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=nautilus
   X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
   X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.0.0
   X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nautilus
   Actions=Window;
   NoDisplay=true
   
   [Desktop Action Window]
   Name=Open YOURFOLDER
   Exec=nautilus YOURFOLDER
   OnlyShowIn=Unity;
   

   Replace "YOURFOLDER" with the path to your folder

3. Now navigate to this file graphically from nautilus and drag it to your launcher