James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:04:38PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> I'm running Ubuntu which I think uses GNOME. >>> GNOME is a desktop environment. Were you trying to add a panel launcher? .............................................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> Please verify. >> Yes. ...^^^
OOPs, I guess I missed this. My reply was howto for a "desktop item" as a launcher, if that's the right term. >> >> >>>> I tried to create a launcher that started 'top' in an xterm >>>> and also started xeyes. Neither worked. >>> Do you have that script? >> I tried "top ; xeyes" w/ and w/o the "Run in terminal" checked. > > I think you need a file that is recognized by X (or the WM) as a > "desktop" file. > > Try something like the following in a file ~/Desktop/testLauncher.desktop > > (except don't use /home/jsack :-; > please post if you discover the _minimum_ content, > and/or the docs for doing this <sigh> > ) > > """ > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Encoding=UTF-8 > Name=test > Comment=this is a comment > Exec=/home/jsack/testLauncher.sh > Icon= > Type=Application > StartupNotify=true > X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.12 > OnlyShowIn=GNOME; > GenericName[en_US]= > Name[en_US]=test2 > """ > Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
