How to get executable file to show up on Raspberryh Pi 4 Desktop

[kn4hh]

Good day, all and thanks for your patience while I get up to speed on Buster. I have now successfully downloaded an amateur radio app called hamring into a created folder called hamring. I ran tar -xvzf hamring-0.8.5_armv7l_rpi.tar.gz in the hamring directory. Then I ran chmod +x hamring-0.8.5_armv7l_rpi. I can exit out of terminal and go to desktop and file manager and go to the hamring directory and double click on the file named hamring and the program excecutes properly. I have installed similar apps and when running the same command set, the app shows up in the applications menu. I tried moving the hamring file to the desktop and it will not execute. How can get the application to show up in the desktop.

Many thanks for any assistance.

Regards,
Bob

[DougieLawson]

hamring-0.8.5_armv7l_rpi.tar.gz ...

What on earth is that and where does it come from? What instructions are published on the originating website?

[kn4hh]

The application is to allow selective calling on HF radio. The application is running fine on the Raspberry Pi 4. The only instruction on the developer’s web site is to extract the tar.gz file and run chmod +x HamRing-0.8.5_arm7vl_rpi

[DougieLawson]

If you can't provide a link to the developer's website then NOBODY CAN HELP YOU!

[scruss]

It's from these folks: HFLINK | HamRing Selective Calling | Selcall HF Radio
(cw: standard ham-radio angry-fruit-salad design that looks straight out of 1999. Every time you look at a website like this, Dieter Rams dies a little …)

OP: It's a commercial product. Please get support from the vendor, because they get paid to do this (unlike us).

73 de VA3PID

[kn4hh]

Thank you, folks for your comments. This is NOT a commercial product. It is being developed by K6DRS and is being alpha tested exclusively by amateur radio operators. It runs flawlessly on windows 10 and Linux. I will ask for help elsewhere.
http://k6drs.com/software/HamRing-0.8.5 ... rpi.tar.gz

[Botspot]

I can ... go to the hamring directory and double click on the file named hamring and the program excecutes properly.
How can get the application to show up in the desktop.

This is such an easy one! Why is everybody refusing to help?
kn4hh, you can add a button to the Menu, via a .desktop file.

Create a new file called launchapp.desktop
Paste this into it:

Code: Select all

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=My app
Comment=A sample application
Exec=put the full path to your hamring file
Terminal=false

Save and exit. When double-clicking, it should run!

To add it to the menu, copy the .desktop file to the ~/.local/share/applications folder.

[kn4hh]

Thank you so much, Botspot. I appreciate the mentoring.
Regards,
Bob