Friday, July 5, 2013

Integrating IntelliJ IDEA 10 into the Linux Mint Main Menu

Wouldn't it be nice if IntelliJ IDEA lived in the menus in Mint and was available from the search box?
The good news is that it can and the better news is that it is easy to achieve :)
and extract it where you want it to live (ex: ~/Applications)
From the desktop: Open Main Menu | Control Centre
In the Control Centre window: Under Personal open Main Menu
In the Main Menu window: Under Menus in the left sidebar select Programming
In the Main Menu window: Click New Item button on right hand side of window
In the Create Launcher dialog: Click the place-holder icon
In the Choose an icon dialog: navigate to the IDEA bin folder and select idea128.png
In the Create Launcher dialog: set Name to IntelliJ IDEA
In the Create Launcher dialog: set Command to env IDEA_SDK="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" /path/to/idea/bin/idea.sh
In the Create Launcher dialog: set Description to Java IDE from JetBrains
Now you can raise IntelliJ IDEA from the search on the Main Menu by typing IntelliJ, JetBrains or Java, etc. :)

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