# Script for creating a menu item for processing

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/script-for-creating-a-menu-item-for-processing/1999
**Category:** Processing for Pi
**Created:** [July 23, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/script-for-creating-a-menu-item-for-processing/1999 "2018-07-23T06:17:56Z")
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### Author: ![monkstone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/monkstone/32/64_2.png) [@monkstone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monkstone)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/script-for-creating-a-menu-item-for-processing/1999/1 "2018-07-23T06:17:56Z")

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Previously I have seen requests to add processing to menu on the raspberrypi, here I have created a simple script to do just that (requires sudo) on vanilla raspbian. Copy script to say menu.sh, then `sudo bash menu.sh`.

```bash
cat > desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
GenericName=Processing
Name=Processing-3.3.7.2
Comment=Processing-3.3.7.2
Icon=/home/pi/processing-3.3.7.2/lib/icons/pde-256.png
Exec=/home/pi/processing-3.3.7.2/processing
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true
EOF

cat desktop >> /usr/share/applications/processing.desktop

```