I seem to have installed Thunderbird, but I can't get a shortcut icon to appear in the K Menu. I installed the RPM for Nvu, and an icon was placed in the Menu. The file for Thunderbird was a tar.gz. I expanded the gz and clicked on the she file to install. It didn't seem like anything happened, but when I click on a file called just Thunderbird (not the traditional icon) the program opens, and I'm writing in it now. Is the program actually installed? Where should it be physically. How can I instruct SuSE to make a shortcut icon where I want it? Thanks in advance. Avraham
Avraham:
At a command prompt you can type "which firefox" + enter. It will
tell you what directory the running version is installed into. From
there you can create a shortcut on the KDE desktop by right clicking
on the desktop and selecting Create New -> Link to Application. Fill
out the parameters in the dialog that opens and on the last tab, point
it to the binary that is running. You can then close the shortcut
dialog and you will have a functioning shortcut (which you can fine
tune if you wish at a later date).
HTH
Chuck
On 4/5/06, Avraham Hanadari
I seem to have installed Thunderbird, but I can't get a shortcut icon to appear in the K Menu. I installed the RPM for Nvu, and an icon was placed in the Menu. The file for Thunderbird was a tar.gz. I expanded the gz and clicked on the she file to install. It didn't seem like anything happened, but when I click on a file called just Thunderbird (not the traditional icon) the program opens, and I'm writing in it now. Is the program actually installed? Where should it be physically. How can I instruct SuSE to make a shortcut icon where I want it?
Thanks in advance.
Avraham
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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:19, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
I seem to have installed Thunderbird, but I can't get a shortcut icon to appear in the K Menu. I installed the RPM for Nvu, and an icon was placed in the Menu. The file for Thunderbird was a tar.gz. I expanded the gz and clicked on the she file to install. It didn't seem like anything happened, but when I click on a file called just Thunderbird (not the traditional icon) the program opens, and I'm writing in it now. Is the program actually installed? Where should it be physically. How can I instruct SuSE to make a shortcut icon where I want it?
Thanks in advance.
Avraham
Try typing this at the command line: which thunderbird you should get a response like /usr/bin/thunderbird or some similar path Right clich on the K-menu start icon and go to menu editor. You can add an entry where you want for thunderbird, add the path for the command. There is a button to click that will change the icon as well, click the current icon and you'll be taken to a list of icons to choose from. The traditional thunderbird icons should be there
kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:19, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
I seem to have installed Thunderbird, but I can't get a shortcut icon to appear in the K Menu. I installed the RPM for Nvu, and an icon was placed in the Menu. The file for Thunderbird was a tar.gz. I expanded the gz and clicked on the she file to install. It didn't seem like anything happened, but when I click on a file called just Thunderbird (not the traditional icon) the program opens, and I'm writing in it now. Is the program actually installed? Where should it be physically. How can I instruct SuSE to make a shortcut icon where I want it?
Thanks in advance.
Avraham
Try typing this at the command line: which thunderbird
you should get a response like /usr/bin/thunderbird or some similar path
Right clich on the K-menu start icon and go to menu editor. You can add an entry where you want for thunderbird, add the path for the command. There is a button to click that will change the icon as well, click the current icon and you'll be taken to a list of icons to choose from. The traditional thunderbird icons should be there
Thanks to Chuck and Kevin. When I entered which thunderbird in the Konsole or in Run Command, there was no response. I guess I have not actually installed the program. Why it is working is more than I can understand. Back to the drawing board and trying to install the program. I downloaded the tar.gz to /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird. I expanded the gz to the same folder (ahanadari). It's right there when I open it to write this. I suspect it should be in usr/bin together with Firefox. What to do now? Avraham
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:09, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:19, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
I seem to have installed Thunderbird, but I can't get a shortcut icon to appear in the K Menu. I installed the RPM for Nvu, and an icon was placed in the Menu. The file for Thunderbird was a tar.gz. I expanded the gz and clicked on the she file to install. It didn't seem like anything happened, but when I click on a file called just Thunderbird (not the traditional icon) the program opens, and I'm writing in it now. Is the program actually installed? Where should it be physically. How can I instruct SuSE to make a shortcut icon where I want it?
Thanks in advance.
Avraham
Try typing this at the command line: which thunderbird
you should get a response like /usr/bin/thunderbird or some similar path
Right clich on the K-menu start icon and go to menu editor. You can add an entry where you want for thunderbird, add the path for the command. There is a button to click that will change the icon as well, click the current icon and you'll be taken to a list of icons to choose from. The traditional thunderbird icons should be there
Thanks to Chuck and Kevin. When I entered which thunderbird in the Konsole or in Run Command, there was no response. I guess I have not actually installed the program. Why it is working is more than I can understand. Back to the drawing board and trying to install the program. I downloaded the tar.gz to /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird. I expanded the gz to the same folder (ahanadari). It's right there when I open it to write this. I suspect it should be in usr/bin together with Firefox. What to do now?
Avraham
Avraham; which only checks your current path ($PATH). Is there a makefile in the /home/ahanadari/ thunderbird-1.5 directory. Also check if there is a file called configure. If so then run: ./configure make make install run the make install as root If you only have a make file but no configure file then see if you can run make install (as root) After this you should see a response from the command: which thunderbird If none of this works either referrence /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird as your shortcut or menu path -or move the /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5 to a directory such as /usr/local (as root) and reference this path as your shortcut or menu path If thunderbird is working well via running it as /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird then I would suggest simply moving the /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5 directory to /usr/local
Avraham Hanadari wrote:
I downloaded the tar.gz to /home/ahanadari/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird. I expanded the gz to the same folder (ahanadari). It's right there when I open it to write this. I suspect it should be in usr/bin together with Firefox. What to do now? Delete the whole directory and download the rpm from the projects tree, i.e. http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/SuSE/projects/mozilla/thunderbird/1.5/ for your version and install. It will be correctly setup for your system. Since you are using an rpm based system, it would be best to use rpms.
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