diff --git a/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/component.spec b/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/component.spec
index ec4078971a..7252e26d7c 100644
--- a/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/component.spec
+++ b/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/component.spec
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ popd > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 for dir in \
         "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/awips2/cave" \
-        "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/xdg/autostart" \
         "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/profile.d" \
         "${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/applications" \
         ; do
@@ -103,14 +102,10 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
 
-# text-workstation autostart script.
+# cave applications script.
 CAVE_SCRIPTS_DIR="%{_baseline_workspace}/rpms/%{_component_project_dir}/scripts"
-TEXTWS_AUTO_SCRIPT="${CAVE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/autostart/textws_left.desktop"
-cp ${TEXTWS_AUTO_SCRIPT} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/xdg/autostart
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-   exit 1
-fi
-cp ${TEXTWS_AUTO_SCRIPT} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/applications
+CAVE_AUTO_SCRIPT="${CAVE_SCRIPTS_DIR}/applications/cave.desktop"
+cp ${CAVE_AUTO_SCRIPT} ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/applications
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
@@ -175,8 +170,7 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %defattr(644,root,root,-)
 /etc/profile.d/awips2Cave.csh
 /etc/profile.d/awips2Cave.sh
-/etc/xdg/autostart/textws_left.desktop
-/usr/share/applications/textws_left.desktop
+/usr/share/applications/cave.desktop
 
 %defattr(644,awips,fxalpha,755)
 /awips2/cave/*.ini
@@ -186,8 +180,9 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %dir /awips2/cave/caveEnvironment
 /awips2/cave/caveEnvironment/*
 /awips2/cave/*.sh
+/awips2/cave/cave.png
 /awips2/cave/VizUpdater.jar
+
 # not a noarch RPM due to the presence of the architecture-specific libraries.
 %dir /awips2/cave/lib64
 /awips2/cave/lib64/*
-
diff --git a/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/applications/cave.desktop b/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/applications/cave.desktop
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1317b916fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/applications/cave.desktop
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Type=Application
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Version=1.0
+Name=AWIPS CAVE
+Comment=Unidata AWIPS CAVE Visualization Client
+Icon=/awips2/cave/cave.png
+Exec=/awips2/cave/cave.sh
+Categories=Network;WebBrowser
+X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.15
diff --git a/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/autostart/textws_left.desktop b/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/autostart/textws_left.desktop
deleted file mode 100644
index 25317c9cac..0000000000
--- a/rpms/awips2.cave/Installer.cave-wrapper/scripts/autostart/textws_left.desktop
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Version=1.0
-Type=Application
-Terminal=false
-Name=Launch TextWS left monitor
-Icon=/awips/fxa/data/awips.gif
-Name[en_US]=Launch TextWS left monitor
-Icon[en_US]=/awips/fxa/data/awips.gif
-Exec=/awips2/cave/textWS.sh -monitor 1