Desktop entry for MATLAB in Linux

To generate a desktop entry for MATLAB (desktop environment XFCE and GNOME) after installation we generate a so called *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=MATLAB
Exec=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2020b/bin/matlab -desktop -softwareopengl &
Icon=/usr/share/icons/matlab.png
Categories=Office;Development
Terminal=false

where we replace the path under Exec with the path pointing to the MATLAB executable. The MATLAB icon in this case was manually added.