Two things I hope can help - Regards the terminal app, one can define a keyboard shortcut to invoke it. Go to system settings, then to keyboard, the second tab should say "shortcuts". From there, the "launchers" group has a "terminal" app for which almost any keystroke can be defined. This can also work for any user-created app as well.
- Regards creating new launch items, I've found it useful to add the 'alacarte' app from either synaptic (my preference) or the software store or apt-get. This is the old *gnome2* menu editor, invaluable for adding new menu items or changing the default options on existing ones. Other than that, you must manually create or edit a new "desktop" file in the usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications folders. Which is often too troublesome for many users On 01/22/2013 08:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I am beginning to understand people's dislike of Unity. I use the > term dislike to be generous. > > I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and am trying to use Unity. Please > refrain from the cat-calls and I-told-you-sos. Humor me. Try to > help. > > I want to create a new launch item in the launcher, specifically > gnome-terminal -e virtualbox. > > The "help" says drag the icon of the application to the launcher. OK. > Create an icon. > > Using Dash, I enter in the search bar "terminal". I get two application > hits: Xterm and Uxterm. Neither of them are gnome-terminal which is > what is launched using the "terminal" icon in the launch bar. And a > search in Dash for gnome-terminal yields nothing. Yet top shows > gnome-terminal to be running when I use that icon, and "which > gnome-terminal" shows /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. wtf. > > Also, I can launch but one terminal from the launcher. I need to use > the first terminal to launch another. > > So I guess I need to find some non-gui way to put something in the launcher. > > I know most here know better than to use Unity, but if some brave soul > has some knowledge which might help, I would appreciate hearing it. > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
