Webstorm desktop launcher

Question

I'm trying to get a working desktop launcher for Webstorm (applicable to any JetBrains product, however.) I've tried using the built-in menu "Add desktop launcher" in both Xubuntu and Lubuntu with no dice.

Running ./webstorm.sh from a terminal in the application's folder works fine.

If I add the option to the .desktop file to run in terminal I get an error message:

ERROR: cannot start WebStorm. No JDK found. Please validate either WEBIDE_JDK, JDK_HOME or JAVA_HOME environment variable >points to valid JDK installation.

Press Enter to continue.

If I open a terminal and do javac -version I get a response, indicating my path is set correctly.

What gives? I am baffled as to what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

Set JAVA_HOME in your ~/.profile like this:

 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/

Then restart your system (or just X-Windows using sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart).