'rxvt' has no .desktop file

[Paul Smith]

I've been using rxvt forever: I think the display quality is much better than xterm and it's far less resource-intensive than gnome terminal.

I just installed 12.04 and when I added the rxvt package, I could find no way to launch it. It doesn't appear in the dash. I can't find any other way to run it, except browsing to it in /usr/bin with the file browser. Even after that, I can't find any way to add it to the left panel so I can start it again. The best I can do, as far as I can tell, is add a shortcut to the desktop which is bogus.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
~$ apt-cache policy rxvt
rxvt:
  Installed: 1:2.6.4-14
  Candidate: 1:2.6.4-14
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.6.4-14 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

In the mean time while I make a .desktop file of 'rxvt', press ALT+F2 to get to the 'Run a command' screen, then type in 'rxvt'