How to create a chrome/brave desktop shortcut on linux

distro_dave

I am trying to create a desktop shortcut in brave (basically the same thing as chrome). I can get the separate window by clicking menu -> more tools -> create shortcut, but it does not create a desktop shortcut for easy access. This is what I am trying, go to the site click menu -> more tools -> create shortcut check the "open as window" box and click create When I do this, it opens the app in a separate window but does not create a .desktop...

Originally asked by chicken on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I ended up using nativefier as a decent solution. https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier This packages up a website as an app and gives you an executable, you can then create your .desktop file pointing to that executable to create the shortcut.

Full answer by chicken: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729467 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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