Add menu entry for XAMPP in Ubuntu 12.04

You will need to install python-glade2 for the XAMPP control panel to work:

sudo apt-get install python-glade2

Then create a file called XAMPP-Control-Panel.desktop in /usr/share/applications/ and put the following in it:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XAMPP Control Panel
GenericName=Control Panel
Comment=XAMPP Control Panel
Exec=gksudo "/opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel"
Icon=/opt/lampp/htdocs/favicon.ico
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass="xampp-control-panel.py"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Developer;

Alternatively do the following:

wget http://www.samclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/XAMPP-Control-Panel.desktop
sudo mv XAMPP-Control-Panel.desktop /usr/share/applications/XAMPP-Control-Panel.desktop

By default (in Ubuntu 12.04) the control panel will not be themed as it needs to run as root. To set the root users theme to your current theme, simply do:

sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts

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