Guides/Qt IDE/Desktop Shortcut

Notice the green J icon!

If you've installed J for Linux from the zip files, you'll have the binaries in place somewhere (I installed them under ~/Application/j901 but J Qt won't be picked up by your window manager.

Here's what you can do, if you have an (invisible) directory called ~/.local/share/applications. Create a file called jqt.desktop in this directory using a text editor and paste the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=9.0.1
Name=J Qt
GenericName=J
Comment=J is an array programming language
Exec=/home/alex/Applications/j901/bin/jqt
Icon=/home/alex/Applications/j901/bin/icons/jgreen.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;KDE;QT
StartupWMClass=J
Keywords=Programming

Change Version, Exec and Icon as befits your installation.