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"An icon" is quite unspecific as that highly depends on what Desktop you use.

The safest and portable thing for me seems to make a bash script that you call from whatever icon/launcher/etc. This should work in general by just calling roslaunch. You might need to manually source your .bashrc within the script. That should fix the problem that you observed.

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