On 09/28/2011 09:23 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I am attempting to duplicate much of what is on my desktop on my laptop. > One of my activities is transcription of recordings of interviews. I > used to use Express Scribe on Windows for that but a couple of months > ago I found two Linux tools that successfully -- for me, anyway -- > replace Express Scribe. They are the programs Transcribe and Footpedal. > Both are installed from .deb files. They are now both installed on my > laptop. The problem is that I don't remember how I got Footpedal onto > the launcher panel. Transcribe installed itself in the Sound& Video sub > menu of the Applications menu and it was a simple right-click to add it > to the launcher panel. I don't find Footpedal in any of the sub menus of > the Applications menu. I can start Footpedal from the command line, and > it acts as expected. When installed it displays an icon of a foot over > next to the date/time display. > > I tried right-clicking on the launcher panel and clicking on "Add to > panel...". But when I type in footpedal the list of available programs > goes blank. > > Any hints on where to look to solve this?
I tripped over the solution. I accidentally right-clicked on the desktop and found "Create Launcher...". I put in the Name: footpedal and the Command: footpedal, and clicked OK. An icon of a foot appeared on the desktop with the name "footpedal" under it. It starts up the program when clicked. I also remembered to copy footpedal.rules from /etc/udev/rules.d so that I don't have to correct the permissions for it each time it is launched. While I solved this one myself, I still thank this list for providing help on other things. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
