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How do I create a shortcut to a brew installed jmeter? The script is in /usr/local/bin/jmeter and it's a symlink to another shell script. When I launch it I cannot pin it to the bar at the bottom with an icon like I have Eclipse and such.

I'm familiar with Windows 7 and Linux administration, but don't know Macs and this is challenging. I can drag it to the right side of the bar but I only get an icon for a terminal and it launches the terminal every time I launch JMeter. How do I just get an icon that launches it?

I do not see it in finder.

mikeb
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You need to make an application wrapper for it. Easiest is probably to use /Applications/Automator.app to create an Application workflow. Add the Run Shell Script action and configure the script. (Replace the default cat command with /usr/local/bin/jmeter.) Save it and put that in your Dock.

Ken Thomases
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Mac has command files. Create jmeter.command file on your desktop. Put jmeter in it. Double-click to run.

Alex O.
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  • In case anyone has questions: Open notepad or any text editing software and create file "jmeter.command". Paste this in file: "open /usr/local/bin/jmeter" – Lewis Mar 10 '23 at 17:53
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It may not be relevant for you, but maybe my method will be useful to someone.

  • I wanted to add a nice icon to the launcher.
  • I wanted this icon to remain in the dock while the application is running.

How I did it:

  1. I installed JMeter brew install jmeter

  2. Created folder JMeter.app in home directory.

    mkdir -p ~/JMeter.app/Contents

  3. Create ~/JMeter.app/Contents/Info.plist with the contents

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
    <string>JMeter</string>
    <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
            <string>Folder</string>
            <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
            <string>Editor</string>
            <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
            <array>
                <string>public.folder</string>
            </array>
        </dict>
    </array>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>JMeter</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>JMeter.icns</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
   <string>dev.jmeter.jmeter-custom</string>
   <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
   <string>6.0</string>
   <key>CFBundleName</key>
   <string>JMeter</string>
   <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
   <string>APPL</string>
   <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
   <string>0.1.0</string>
   <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
   <array>
         <dict>
            <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
            <string>Custom App</string>
            <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
            <array>
                <string>JMeter</string>
            </array>
         </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

  4. Create ~/JMeter.app/MacOS/JMeter with next the contents (you may need to fix the path, in fact it is an analogue of the file cat $(which jmeter) with some changes)

    #!/bin/bash
JMETER_OPTS="${JMETER_OPTS} -Xdock:icon=/Applications/JMeter.app/Icon.png -Xdock:name=JMeter -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -Dapple.eawt.quitStrategy=CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS" JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk" exec "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/jmeter/5.5/libexec/bin/jmeter"  "$@"

    And make it executable

    chmod +x ~/JMeter.app/MacOS/JMeter

  5. Create icon JMeter.icns in ~/JMeter.app/Resources/JMeter.icns. How to:

    5.1 You can download my png icon to ~/JMeter.app/Icon.png

    5.2 Save the script to ~/JMeter.app/icongen.sh (I took it here How do I set the icon for my application's Mac OS X app bundle? and little changed it)

    ```
#/bin/zsh

export PROJECT=JMeter
export ICONDIR=Contents/Resources/$PROJECT.iconset
export ORIGICON=Icon.png
mkdir $ICONDIR

# Normal screen icons
for SIZE in 16 32 64 128 256 512; do
sips -z $SIZE $SIZE $ORIGICON --out $ICONDIR/icon_${SIZE}x${SIZE}.png ;
done

# Retina display icons
for SIZE in 32 64 256 512 1024; do
sips -z $SIZE $SIZE $ORIGICON --out $ICONDIR/icon_$(expr $SIZE / 2)x$(expr $SIZE / 2)x2.png ;
done

# Make a multi-resolution Icon
iconutil -c icns $ICONDIR -o Contents/Resources/$PROJECT.icns
rm -rf $ICONDIR #it is useless now

    5.3 Run this step by step

    $ cd ~/JMeter.app
$ chmod +x icongen.sh
$ ./icongen.sh

  6. As a result, you should get the following structure

    .
├── Contents
│   ├── Info.plist
│   ├── MacOS
│   │   └── jmeter
│   └── Resources
│       └── JMeter.icns
├── Icon.png
└── icongen.sh

4 directories, 5 files

    Make sure in the Finder that the icon is loaded for ~/JMeter.app. You can run a command to speed this up.

    touch ~/JMeter.app

  7. Final steps. I studied the file and found that the application icon is overridden by a parameter there. That's why we changed the startup script (symlink). We need to change the file /opt/homebrew/Cellar/jmeter/5.5/libexec/bin/jmeter . I commented out a block of code (line:133-145):

    # case `uname` in
#    Darwin*)
#    # Add Mac-specific properties - should be ignored elsewhere (Bug 47064)
#    if [ -f ${PRGDIR}/../xdocs/images/jmeter_square.png ]; then
#        JMETER_OPTS="${JMETER_OPTS} -Xdock:icon=${PRGDIR}/../xdocs/images/jmeter_square.png"
#    elif [ -f ${PRGDIR}/../docs/images/jmeter_square.png ]; then
#        JMETER_OPTS="${JMETER_OPTS} -Xdock:icon=${PRGDIR}/../docs/images/jmeter_square.png"
#    fi
#    # Note: macOS still shows "java" process name (see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173753)
#    # The workaround could be to distribute *.dmg bundle
#    JMETER_OPTS="${JMETER_OPTS} -Xdock:name=JMeter -Xdock:icon=${PRGDIR}/../docs/images/jmeter_square.png -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -Dapple.eawt.quitStrategy=CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS"
#    ;;
# esac

  8. Well. Move JMeter.app to /Applications/Jmeter.app.

  9. Try run it

(see project on GitHub: https://github.com/karpulix/jmeter-icon)

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