On 01/05/12 15:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 01/05/12 14:38, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
However, you can create a launcher in ~.local/share/applications, give it
an icon, and execute the launcher in nautilus. Then once it is running,
right-click on the launcher icon and "Lock to Launcher". After that Unity
seems to index ~/.local/share/applications (or at least that one application).
Thanks Tyler,
I had already created some desktop files, one for Talend& one for
eclipse (the deb packaged eclipse won't allow certain updates so I just
run a clean one from my ~/bin) but hadn't realised that starting it from
nautilus was the trick.
I appreciate it. I now have a launcher icon for Talend which seems to
start it ok.
However, I then minimised my app and the little arrow disappeared from
my Talend launcher icon and clicking on it it tries to start a new
instance of the app.
This *really* shouldn't be so hard!
I created a launch icon on the desktop yesterday and there were a
bunch of ways to do this I discovered, some very esoteric. I chose an
easy way (for me).
my forums question and thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11894085&postcount=1
which I had used the nice suggestions in:
http://askubuntu.com/a/128284
(As you might see i had a supplementary need to run my script inside a
terminal, wwhich I did find how to do)
Summary:
In the Desktop create an "Untitled Document", Just right click in the
Desktop and select Create New Document.
Edit the file with Gedit and add the following lines:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Save the file and THEN rename it to whatever you want *but* at the end
of the name add .desktop, For example if wanted to make a
shortcut for a wine program like photoshop I would put as a name
photoshop.desktop
Now you should be able to right click the file and edit the file
Launcher Properties, in my case I added the command to run my script
in a terminal (etc etc)
At this stage it is possible now to drag the icon, now a launcher
icon, into the main Launcher at the left hand side, if wished. Mine
goes in as Un-named, needs more work but I do not want mine in the
launcher just yet anyway
hth
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