How to add program icons to desktop in Ubuntu

Add program icons to desktop in Ubuntu

Here in this tutorial we are going to talk about . adding program shortcuts to the desktop in Ubuntu.
In Ubuntu dragging of icons will not support for all the programs this works for some programs but not for all. For instance if you drag LibreOffice Writer icon from Dash to your desktop in Ubuntu, a shortcut will be created but owned by the root user.

Then if you double click on the icon to launch this will be returned with following error message.

This is not at all expected by beginners to use. To get out of these problems you should run these following command in terminal.

Adding program shortcuts to the desktop in Ubuntu

sudo chmod +x ~/Desktop/*.desktop

To take ownership of the icons by running the commands below.

sudo chown username ~/Desktop/*.desktop

Replace username with your account name.

Cheers!!!