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Icon in Mint does not work but application works when called directly - Intellij IDEA

I am running Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) KDE (64-bit)

The problem is that the icon for the application Intellij IDEA does not work but it works when I call the application directly by:

cd /opt/idea-IU-141.1010.3/bin/
./idea.sh

The first time that I ran the code above I got the error:

'tools.jar' seems to be not in IDEA classpath. Please ensure JAVA_HOME points to JDK rather than JRE.

Pretty straightforward message. I went to to ~/.bashrc and add:

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_45/

And reload in terminal:

source ~/.bashrc

Then, when I ran again:

./idea.sh

It worked as expected... but when I press the icon in the Launcher Menu, I got the same error as described above!

Why I still having the problem with the classpath? I also reboot the system, but I got the error again.

Thank you!

Solution

  • When you start the application with the launcher, .bashrc is not read if the shell used to run the shell script is not bash. You may add 

    JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_45/

    to /opt/idea-IU-141.1010.3/idea.sh itself.