Is there a way to put snap programs into settings apps or list of apps?

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ubuntu 24.04.2

Is there a way to put snap programs into settings apps or list of apps?
I, For example, I just installed sabnzbd. Its working fine, no problems. The problem is that is not even really in Snap when you look at it. You need another step just to get to it.

I checked and found this has been asked before but there seems to be no answer.

Thank you…

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I don’t really understand what you mean by putting apps ‘into the settings apps’, but making it possible to start the app graphically is something most snaps do automatically during installation.
For apps that don’t do that you just need to create a small text file with the extension ‘.desktop’ with the structure documented at freedesktop.org and put it into one of the places where the system looks for such files - ‘/usr/share/applications/’ if the program should be available to all users of the system or ‘~/.local/share/applications/’ if it’s just for yourself.

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sabnzbd is a server application, not a desktop app, as such it does not ship any launchers but requires you to use a browser to get to the GUI.

As @hdd-gehrke said, to launch such an app you could try to create a custom launcher inside ~/.local/share/applications/ that launches your browser with the given URL to have it open with the sabnzbd UI …

Here is a small guide how to do this:

https://askubuntu.com/a/1045962

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Thank you all for the replies and help…

I have a dock on the bottom of my screen that tells me what I use and what is on and what is not. This is helpful. It would be nice, for instance, if didn’t have to go to firefox to see if I have sabnzbd on or off, etc.

I can, obviously, get along without it but it would just be nicer. If I could just put it there it would help me. Sabnzbd starts automatically. If not all I have to do, in firefox, is put http://localhost:8080/ and it comes right up.

Thanks again!

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I removed sabnzbd+ from snap and moved it and it solved my problems. Sabnzbd+ is not easy to deal with when its in snap - be aware!

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