Making an application shortcut in KDE
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE? Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens. Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?). Matt
On Friday 28 May 2004 08:30 pm, Matthew wrote:
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE?
Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens.
Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?).
Matt It works fine for me.
What version of SuSE Linux? What KDE version? What exactly is it doing/not doing? Is your application executable (file permissions)? Can you run it from a console? Or from quick command (alt +f2)? Regards, Mark
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 20:47, Mark A. Taff wrote:
On Friday 28 May 2004 08:30 pm, Matthew wrote:
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE?
Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens.
Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?).
Matt It works fine for me.
What version of SuSE Linux? What KDE version? What exactly is it doing/not doing? Is your application executable (file permissions)? Can you run it from a console? Or from quick command (alt +f2)?
Regards,
Mark
9.1, kde 3.2, yes can be run via terminal...Just cannot point to the application and have it run, its not a system-wide command. Matt
On Friday 28 May 2004 08:57 pm, Matthew wrote:
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 20:47, Mark A. Taff wrote:
On Friday 28 May 2004 08:30 pm, Matthew wrote:
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE?
Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens.
Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?).
Matt
It works fine for me.
What version of SuSE Linux? What KDE version? What exactly is it doing/not doing? Is your application executable (file permissions)? Can you run it from a console? Or from quick command (alt +f2)?
Regards,
Mark
9.1, kde 3.2, yes can be run via terminal...Just cannot point to the application and have it run, its not a system-wide command.
Matt
My guess is the application is not in a folder that is in your path (`echo $PATH` in a console), and you are only specifying the name of the application instead of the full path. Try specifying the full path. You may edit the desktop icon directly by opening /home/$USER/Desktop/$apppname.desktop in kwrite or kate Here is a sample of what it should look like: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Reboot directly into another OS Comment[en_US]=Reboot directly into another OS Encoding=UTF-8 Exec='/home/mark/docs/scripts/nextboot/nextboot' GenericName=GRUB Nextboot GenericName[en_US]=GRUB Nextboot Icon=exit MimeType= Name=nextboot Name[en_US]=nextboot Path= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-DCOP-ServiceType= X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= Note the line "Exec=" Nextboot is a script I wrote (available from kde-apps.org). It is not in my path, so I have to specify the full path to the executable. Regards, Mark
On 28.05.04,20:30, Matthew wrote:
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE?
Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens.
Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?).
As root you can do:
ln -s /foldersomewhere/program /usr/local/bin/program
It should then be possible to open with Alt-F2.
- Jostein
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Jostein Berntsen
There is a value in Yast2->system->/etc/sysconfig That puts the current directory into the path. default is OFF, for security reasons, but then you don't need ./program. Jerry On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:31, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
On 28.05.04,20:30, Matthew wrote:
Why is it always such a pain to do in KDE?
Program resides in its own folder, cannot be launched by a single command, usually have to find it and './program' how does one invoke this in KDE again? Link to application does not work too well, browse to it select it and nothing happens.
Know there is a way, but forgotten it (and why is it not more simple?).
As root you can do:
ln -s /foldersomewhere/program /usr/local/bin/program
It should then be possible to open with Alt-F2.
- Jostein
-- Jostein Berntsen
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