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The Arduino IDE is a neat little bit of software that doesn’t have a ready made launcher for those of use in the unix world.   It’s easy enough to create though.

• Right click on your taskbar and select Add to Panel
• Choose Custom Application Launcher
• Type should be Application
• Name should be Whatever you want, I just use ‘Arduino’
• Command should be

bash -c “cd $HOME/Dropbox/Code/arduino-0012/; ./arduino”

This assumes that the arduino software is in a directory called “Dropbox/Code” in your home directory. If it’s just in your home directory, then the command would look like this

bash -c “cd $HOME/arduino-0012/; ./arduino”

• Now just pick an icon of your choice and hit OK.