Installing Teamspeak and creating TeamSpeak3 .desktop file

I am very new to Ubuntu and I want to create desktop launcher.

I have this in my TeamSpeak3.desktop in

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamSpeak 3
Comment=TeamSpeak 3 VoIP Communicator
Exec=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;Application;
Icon=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/styles/default/logo-128x128.png

in my ~/.local/share/applications/TeamSpeak3.desktopBut I dont see it in my launcher and when I double click on it files, it just opens the text file. I even made it executable with chmod +x TeamSpeak3.desktop

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1 Answer

Ok you have some things wrong in your whole setup and like this it can not really work so I'm going through the whole installation process for you so you can pick up where you got astray.

1. download the TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run from The Teamspeak Website

2. run the TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run file with:

   chmod 755 TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run
   ./TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.1.6.run

3. move the whole new directory to /opt with

   sudo mv TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64 /opt/

4. change the ownership of the moved copy and recursively change the file permissions with:

   sudo chown -Rv root:root /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64
   sudo chmod -Rv 755 /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64

5. download some nice icon for Teamspeak, since the provided does not really look good, google simply for teamspeak ico png and download one and move it to the /opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64 and name it appropriately; I have chosen here simply teamspeak-icon.png

6. create your .desktop file in /usr/share/applications (you can copy and paste the whole code-block to the terminal):

   sudo su &&
   cat > /usr/share/applications/teamspeak.desktop << EOF
   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=TeamSpeak 3
   Comment=TeamSpeak 3 VoIP Communicator
   Exec=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh
   Terminal=false
   Type=Application
   Categories=Network;Application;
   Icon=/opt/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/teamspeak-icon.png
   EOF
   exit

This should leave you with a working Teamspeak client working for every user on the system.