WEll, I'm not getting to far with this little adventure.
I can get the icon on the desk, and it even starts the application it's
supposed to. But with varied results.
For example
I set up a Netscape file in .gnome-desktop.
It puts the icon on the desktop as it should. It even starts Netscape.
(good start). But I get a pop-up window with the error:
could not fdopen() the new stderr:
invalid argurment
Netscape runs fine, after that.
Ok, so it has no place to write stderr. But what controls that?
So, I turn on terminal to see if it writes anything there. Nope. It
stays empty. BUT, I don't get the error message any more. Turning off
the terminal, gets the error message back. :|
This "should" be a simple matter. (Oh, and yes, I'm using Nautilus to
control the desktop). I can't find anything the gnome, or nautilus
documentation about how to do this.
Somebody has to know, RedHat, and Mandrake both put their stuff up
there!
Thanks again!
Ric
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>
> Your right, its a mystery on what is a "nice" way to do this. I usually
> edit an existing entry and save it under a new name. If you change an
> entry, you need to delete the original and copy the changed entry to the
> directory before the changes are noted (or exit/relogin gnome!). You
> can set the "terminal" entry to true to see messages for apps that give
> trouble. Note also that giving the full path to the app seems to work
> in some cases where the app name only does not.
>
> BillK
>
> On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 08:07, 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!!!
> >
> >
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> > Ric Tibbetts
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