If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple "Link to an > application" or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. > Any ideas? > > Roman > Registered Linux User #179293 > "su is not the root of your problem > but the start of a new journey"