diff --git a/src/server/Makefile.am b/src/server/Makefile.am
index a0f45d7dd918ce0c2cf4f707bc5e937bf4c0e39a..36f81bad831bc4d9a17bfc425adeb7c2bb39da14 100644
--- a/src/server/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/server/Makefile.am
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@ if !OS_WINDOWS
 #			  backends/SRT/srt_spectrometer.so
 endif
 
+data_desktopdir = $(datadir)/applications
+data_desktop_DATA = data/org.uvie.radtelsim.desktop
+EXTRA_DIST = $(data_desktop_DATA)
 
-
+appicondir=$(datadir)/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
+appicon_DATA=data/org.uvie.radtelsim.svg
 
 
diff --git a/src/server/data/org.uvie.radtelsim.desktop b/src/server/data/org.uvie.radtelsim.desktop
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12a73a72ea338023f43019d8182ead50682fff72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/data/org.uvie.radtelsim.desktop
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Name=Radio Telescope Server
+Comment=A Radio Telescope Server
+Exec=radtelsrv
+Terminal=false
+Type=Application
+StartupNotify=true
+Icon=org.uvie.radtelsim
+Categories=GTK;Science;Astronomy;
+Keywords=RadioAstronomy;SRT;UVIE;