Tips for desktop or remote desktop configuration or installing desktop GUI applications.
How do I create an icon on the Ubuntu desktop that launches an application?
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/opt/chrome-linux/chrome
Name=Chromium
Icon=/opt/chrome-linux/product_logo_48.png
Create this file as ~/.local/share/applications/chrome.desktop
sudo snap remove firefox && \
sudo apt remove -y firefox && \
wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null && \
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null && \
echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla && \
sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends firefox
This is for x86 only:
cd /opt && \
sudo wget https://download-chromium.appspot.com/dl/Linux_x64?type=snapshots -O chrome-linux.zip && \
sudo unzip chrome-linux.zip && \
sudo rm chrome-linux.zip && \
sudo ln -s /opt/chrome-linux/chrome /usr/local/bin/chrome
Then start with chrome-linux/chrome
- NoMachine - https://www.nomachine.com/documents
- Linux x86_64 DEB Downloads
- Linux aarch64 DEB Downloads
Depending on latest version for x86 or ARM:
wget https://download.nomachine.com/download/8.14/Linux/nomachine_8.14.2_1_amd64.deb && \
sudo dpkg -i nomachine_8.14.2_1_amd64.deb
wget https://download.nomachine.com/download/8.16/Arm/nomachine_8.16.1_1_arm64.deb && \
sudo dpkg -i nomachine_8.16.1_1_arm64.deb
Once running, you should see the port it exposes to connect to from clients:
NoMachine was configured to run the following services:
NX> 700 NX service on port: 4000