After reading some of the various sites recommended, I am still in a state of confusion (maybe more-so).
I created a desktop configuration file using an option in Virtual box: create a short-cut file on the desktop. It shows as an icon and it works. The command listed in the properties window is /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "Win2kSP2" --startvm "b2431776-771e-4972-8f49-a96aed2d2c4f". It launches just what I want. I can drag this icon to the launcher and mark it lock to Launcher. However, if I move the icon from the desktop to Home or delete it the icon disappears from the Launcher. One suggestion was to place a desktop configuration file for my desired application in ~/.local/share/applications. I moved it to this folder. But I noticed that only one of the desktop configuration files in this folder have the execute bit set. I duplicated the setting for my file. It now appears in Dash when I search, but only as "Applications" without the appropriate name. The other file with the execute bit set is Alsa-mixer, and that appears upon a search as Applications with the name Alsa-mixer. All this comes from what I see in Nautilus( 3.4.2). In a terminal I see that Nautilus hides the real file names. The Alsa-mixer file is "alacarte-made.desktop". Nautilus says the name is AlsaMixer, as does the properties window. The alacarte-made.desktop file contains: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Exec=gnome-terminal -e alsamixer Icon=gnome-panel-launcher Icon[en_US]=gnome-panel-launcher Name=AlsaMixer Name[en_US]=AlsaMixer NoDisplay=false Terminal=false Type=Application Version=1.0 My desktop file contains: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Name=Win2kSP2 Comment=Starts the VirtualBox machine Win2kSP2 Type=Application Exec=/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "Win2kSP2" --startvm "b2431776-771e-4972-8f49-a96aed2d2c4f" Icon=virtualbox-vbox.png I have not explored how my file interacts with the Launcher yet. Other than flushing Unity, what do you suggest? And is Nautilus' behavior of hiding the file names well known, or is that a "feature" added by Unity? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
