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Re: SAS 9.2 for linux: desktop icon

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On 06/17/2011 05:19 PM, Michael Friendly wrote:
> I'm running SAS 9.2 on Kubuntu/linux. I can start sas from the command
> line, but I'd like to have a desktop icon as well, and to have SAS
> appear in my Kubuntu applications menu.
>
> Can anyone provide a pointer to step-by-step instructions?

Following an off-list reply from Paul Homes:

Hi Michael,

I did a blog post with the .desktop files I use to launch SAS apps on
Ubuntu: http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/06/sas-app-desktop-files/

I use them with Gnome / Ubuntu but as freedesktop files I expect they
should also work with KDE / Kubuntu.


The following .desktop file works for me with Kubuntu, if I save it to
/usr/share/applications/

%%%% sas-dms.desktop %%%%%

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Education;Math;
Name=SAS Display Manager 9.2
Icon=/usr/local/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/X11/bitmaps/48/saslogo.xpm
Exec=/usr/local/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/sas %F

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