Recreating PyCharm launcher in Ubuntu

Question

I installed pycharm normally via bin/pycharm.sh, but the mistake I made was doing bash pycharm.sh while the pycharm directory has inside the D

Answer 1

When Tools -> Create Desktop Entry does not work:

Create a new file on your desktop (using vi or a similar command) named:
jetbrains-pycharm.desktop

Paste the following inside:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PyCharm
Icon=/opt/pycharm-5.0.1/bin/pycharm.png
Exec="/opt/pycharm-5.0.1/bin/pycharm.sh" %f
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm

Keep in mind to change the path and version number of icon and exec properties above.

Tested on various versions of PyCharm - like a charm ☺