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I want to launch Spyder with tensorflow environment activated directly through a desktop icon. For this purpose, I created a desktop icon launching a virtualenv and then my application. Many posts already exist but I cannot find a solution for this exact problem. Here is my spyder.sh file:

#!/bin/bash
source /home/alexis/tensorflow/bin/activate
spyder3

and here is my desktop entry:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Spyder 
Comment=Spyder
Exec='/home/alexis/Launcher/spyder.sh'
Icon=spyder3
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=Application;
Name[en_US]=Spyder

The files have chmod +x. From a terminal, the script works as expected. From the desktop, the script launches Spyder but the environment is not activated. What I am missing?

Related questions not answering my question:
How do I make a desktop icon to launch a program?
and
How do I automate the activation of Python environment

To run your python script within the virtual environment, you simply have to execute the python binary which is in the bin folder of your virtual env folder.

Ie : if your virtual env within /home/alexis/myvirtualenv and if the script you want to execute is named /home/alexis/scripts/my_python_file.py, you will have to run your python script this way :

/home/alexis/myvirtualenv/bin/python /home/alexis/scripts/my_python_file.py

For your specific needs :
Try to put the following code within spyder.sh :

#!/bin/bash
/home/alexis/tensorflow/bin/python spyder3 # you may have to put the full path to spyder3