How to make an installed application show up in start menu?

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Awesome!! Thanks so much, [member=7109]Moltke[/member] ! This is wonderful. I tried this out (first removing it from menu to see how your method would work). It worked beautifully!  8) (The executable file was called icecat not icecat-browser so in the 4th line I typed: sudo ln -sf /opt/icecat-browser/icecat /usr/bin/icecat-browser ). Your method was very helpful.

I can see how I can repeat the process with any other software that is sitting around in my directory as extracted files.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this to me - besides being helpful for icecat, it's also helping me for the future for setting up my system better.