How to get "Epson Printer Utility" to start from Launcher in Ubuntu?

You need to create a desktop file for it and change some permissions.

  1. Create /usr/share/applications/epson-utility.desktop file with this content:

    #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Type=Application
    Categories=Application;Printing;
    
    Name=Epson Printer Utility
    
    Exec=epson-printer-utility
    Terminal=false
    Icon=/opt/epson-printer-utility/resource/Images/AppIcon.png
    
  2. Give permissions to this file to be run

    sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/epson-utility.desktop
    
  3. There are no permissions to read contents of /opt/epson-printer-utility/resource/Images directory for some reason. You need to grant them.

    sudo chmod 755 /opt/epson-printer-utility/resource/Images
    

Now you will see the utility in your Launcher.

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I did alt+F2 and epson-printer-utility and then locked the icon on panel, plain and simple.

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Printing

Epson