Jtdcftul

In the latest version, I managed to do this by

./start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app

from shell within the directory and it created the entry in my applications-menu just fine.

Just open it with whatever script you already used and right click on its icon in unity/menu and choose lock to launcher ;)

OR #2 Option --

based on Ubuntu documentation, just open up the file 'launcher_name_here.desktop' with atext editor e.g, gedit , and then paste these codes, modify them with your application execution scripts and location and then save it:

[Desktop Entry]

Version=x.y

Name=ProgramName

Comment=This is my comment

Exec=/home/alex/Documents/exec.sh

Icon=/home/alex/Pictures/icon.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Utility;Application;

OR #3 Option ---

use the extra gnome application "gnome-panel/alacarte" by this command in terminal :

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel and then

gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new

In any case I would suggest to take a look at my references link above. ;)

Based on Amir's work (put here to preserve formatting, please upvote him if you upvote me), a customised one. Unpack these icons to your Tor folder, assumed to be in home:

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Tor

Comment=Launches Vidalea & Tor

Exec=/home/YOU/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser

Icon=/home/YOU/tor-browser_en-US/TBB-icon-draft+vector/64x64.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Utility;Application;

Xubuntu: You add it via settings > main menu, new entry, point to 'start tor browser'. It'll go in 'other'. Dunno how to edit that or icon. Seems buggy. Comment if you know what to do.

Copy the start-tor-browser.desktop configuration, found in the root of the tor-browser installation directory, to ~/.local/share/applications

Job done

1. Open the directory of the tor browser in the file manager. There is a file called:
   start-tor-browser.desktop
   


2. Drag this file to the Unity Launcher on the left side.

An icon is added to the launcher and could be used from now on.

Open file:///usr/share/applications/ then drag the icon you want to the desktop.

RE: Adding Tor to favorites bar

I was running into a similar problem in Kali Linux, which is based on Ubuntu, and what I found to work was:

1) Download and extract the standalone Tor bundle and extract the whole folder.

2) Navigate to that folder in terminal

3) Copy the entire contents of this folder to /usr/share/applications by running this command:



sudo cp -R *.* /usr/share/applications



4)Go to your main menu, Tor should now be listed under "Internet" category, and launch Tor

5) When Tor launches, you should now be able to right click on the favorites icon and choose "add to favorites"

Anyway, it worked for me and solved both problems of adding it to the menu and favorites.

NOTE: I did this under a sudo enabled account in Kali and NOT root! Not sure if it works under root.

To properly add a new user to Kali, read instructions here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140502074357-79939846-adding-a-new-user-in-kali-linux

I have managed to copy "Tor Browser" shortcut to the applications directory. I think it might be similar across Debian based linux system. So, what i did is following steps which are mixed of above suggestions.

1. when i installed Tor browser, it has a application launcher called "Tor Browser.desktop". I copied this file to /usr/share/applications folder as a root user (I hope it is necessary to be root for this folder).




2. I renamed this file for just easy purpose so it doesn't have space in the filename, i.e.
mv Tor Browser.desktop tor-browser.desktop




3. Then I changed permission to be like -rw-r--r-r which means root user has read and write and all other has only read access to it.

That's all! It works for me and I hope it works for you guys as well.

Also, I am not saying this is best option, but it is the only option it worked for me. Thanks.