Launch icons on desktop
Can anyone help me? I have a few applications that I would kike to be able to launch from desktop eg mozilla, OO, synaptic and others. How do I go about creating a icon or link to these that will allow me to launch from desktop. Thanks David
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 17:31, DB Troll a écrit :
Can anyone help me? I have a few applications that I would kike to be able to launch from desktop eg mozilla, OO, synaptic and others. How do I go about creating a icon or link to these that will allow me to launch from desktop.
Right-click on the desktop -> New -> Link to a application. A window opens. In the first tab, choose a name for the icon and an icon. In the second, do nothing. In the third, type or select the name of the application. In the fourth, do nothing (unless you want to link the application to a particular file type). That's it! - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9x/Rrv1vqsTa1E4oRAmRMAKCTuac9Si5mmZf2OETeUOB5Pwzm1QCgzu65 vj3IJv7IEvw4g8HJpMQE+E0= =+P1c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Op dinsdag 5 november 2002 17:40, schreef Thibaut Cousin:
Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 17:31, DB Troll a écrit :
Can anyone help me? I have a few applications that I would kike to be able to launch from desktop eg mozilla, OO, synaptic and others. How do I go about creating a icon or link to these that will allow me to launch from desktop.
Right-click on the desktop -> New -> Link to a application. A window opens. In the first tab, choose a name for the icon and an icon. In the second, do nothing. In the third, type or select the name of the application. In the fourth, do nothing (unless you want to link the application to a particular file type). That's it!
- -- Thibaut Cousin
.....Or if the app in question is already in one of the menues, just drag 'n' drop them onto the desktop. Ex "otherOS" users should feel right at home with these two methods :-) Marcel
Hi, On a similiar subject, what about doing the same to launch applications from the panel. I can see how to do it under kde2 if the application is in the menu, but what if it's not for some reason (e.g. gv and in my case mozilla) or I want to launch an app with a particular command. Again, I can guess how to do this on the desktop, but I want to be able to launch applications from the panel. On a related note, is it possible (in Suse 7.3, kde2) to perform the same operations on the tasks in a Windowlist as on a Taskbar. i.e. I can r-click running applications on the taskbar and get a menu of options including 'Bring to current desktop' and want to be able to do the same with the list of applications in the Windowlist. I want the advantages of the taskbar without cluttering it with applications from different desktops, basically. Is there an embarrassingly easy solution or are these features maybe in kde3? Thanks, Oliver
Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 17:31, DB Troll a écrit :
Can anyone help me? I have a few applications that I would kike to be able to launch from desktop eg mozilla, OO, synaptic and others. How do I go about creating a icon or link to these that will allow me to launch from desktop.
Right-click on the desktop -> New -> Link to a application. A window opens. In the first tab, choose a name for the icon and an icon. In the second, do nothing. In the third, type or select the name of the application. In the fourth, do nothing (unless you want to link the application to a particular file type). That's it!
- -- Thibaut Cousin
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 6 Novembre 2002 01:47, Oliver Henshaw a écrit :
On a similiar subject, what about doing the same to launch applications from the panel. I can see how to do it under kde2 if the application is in the menu, but what if it's not for some reason (e.g. gv and in my case mozilla) or I want to launch an app with a particular command.
Again, I can guess how to do this on the desktop, but I want to be able to launch applications from the panel.
On a related note, is it possible (in Suse 7.3, kde2) to perform the same operations on the tasks in a Windowlist as on a Taskbar. i.e. I can r-click running applications on the taskbar and get a menu of options including 'Bring to current desktop' and want to be able to do the same with the list of applications in the Windowlist. I want the advantages of the taskbar without cluttering it with applications from different desktops, basically.
Is there an embarrassingly easy solution or are these features maybe in kde3?
I know nothing of Windowmaker, so I won't help you there. For KDE 3, by "panel", do you mean "Kicker" (with the task bar, the system tray, etc)? In this case, it is easy. Creating the icon you want on the desktop and then drag it on Kicker, it will get integrated. Then you can remove the icon from the desktop. Or drag the icon directly from the menu to Kicker. - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yMtVv1vqsTa1E4oRAlJKAKCl9RN1sWjyDLE+WGPgkKbdpTPlQwCfcx1Q o55pEwN+dFoEJIDZMKYXxD8= =giwb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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