Dave Sherman wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 18:07, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > I've been digging at this for a while. There "is" a way to add icons to > > the desktop in Gnome, for starting applications. > > I'm part way there, but stuck. > > > > If I add a deffinition file in ~/.gnome-desktop, I can get the icon on > > the desk, and even start the appication, but I always get errors (the > > exact error depends on the applicaion I'm launching). > > > > Does anyone know the secret behind making this work? It's a piece of > > cake in KDE, but a bit more of a mystery in Gnome. > > > > I know it "can" be done. RedHat & Mandrake both add their stuff to it. > > It's just not documented anywhere that I can find. I'd settle for being > > pointed at a document. > > > > Thanks!!! > > Ric, > > There's a GUI wat to do, if that's what you want. Depending on whether > you are using Nautilus or GMC to draw your desktop, it is a bit > different. In GMC, just right-click the desktop, and choose Launcher. > This will create a shortcut icon, and brings up a dialog box allowing > you to specify the program to run (use the full path to the executable), > what icon to use, and what permissions you want. Piece of cake. In > Nautilus, it is similar, unfortunately I don't remember the exact popup > menu option to choose (I got rid of Nautilus pretty quick, because it > bogged down my 366 MHz Celeron really bad).
If there's a GUI for this, I sure can't find it! :) I've about torn this thing to pieces looking. If it's there, it's well hidden! -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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