Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed. There is no gmenu to install from yum. At this point all I would like to do is to set up a couple of menu choices for alternate start ups of konsole. If any of you have some tutorial starting places I would certainly appreciate your advice. Thanks, Greg Ennis made a executable shell script to do what you want, then add a menu item in /usr/share/applications every menu items in this folder will be shown in overview mode in gnome3 and can be added to favorites and dock by simple right click. a simple menu item in this folder looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=AnyApplication GenericName=Terminal Exec=/usr/bin/yourexecutable Icon=anyicon Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=true Categories=Other; -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Shahab Shahsavari Alavidjeh - شهاب شهسواری علویجه ـ Weblog: http://piamak.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/zzgraph -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed. There is no gmenu to install from yum. At this point all I would like to do is to set up a couple of menu choices for alternate start ups of konsole. If any of you have some tutorial starting places I would certainly appreciate your advice. Thanks, Greg Ennis made a executable shell script to do what you want, then add a menu item in /usr/share/applications every menu items in this folder will be shown in overview mode in gnome3 and can be added to favorites and dock by simple right click. a simple menu item in this folder looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=AnyApplication GenericName=Terminal Exec=/usr/bin/yourexecutable Icon=anyicon Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=true Categories=Other; -- Shahab Shahsavari Alavidjeh - Thank you very much! Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:03:19AM -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed. There is no gmenu to install from yum. At this point all I would like to do is to set up a couple of menu choices for alternate start ups of konsole. If any of you have some tutorial starting places I would certainly appreciate your advice. Thanks, Greg Ennis made a executable shell script to do what you want, then add a menu item in /usr/share/applications every menu items in this folder will be shown in overview mode in gnome3 and can be added to favorites and dock by simple right click. a simple menu item in this folder looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=AnyApplication GenericName=Terminal Exec=/usr/bin/yourexecutable Icon=anyicon Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=true Categories=Other; -- Shahab Shahsavari Alavidjeh - Thank you very much! I believe this should be added in ~/.local/share/applications, and not /usr/share/applications (which is systemwide and non-writable for normal users). -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:03:19AM -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed. There is no gmenu to install from yum. At this point all I would like to do is to set up a couple of menu choices for alternate start ups of konsole. If any of you have some tutorial starting places I would certainly appreciate your advice. Thanks, Greg Ennis made a executable shell script to do what you want, then add a menu item in /usr/share/applications every menu items in this folder will be shown in overview mode in gnome3 and can be added to favorites and dock by simple right click. a simple menu item in this folder looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=AnyApplication GenericName=Terminal Exec=/usr/bin/yourexecutable Icon=anyicon Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=true Categories=Other; -- Shahab Shahsavari Alavidjeh - Thank you very much! I believe this should be added in ~/.local/share/applications, and not /usr/share/applications (which is systemwide and non-writable for normal users). -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ -- Paul, That makes sense. Thank you. Is there a way to create a menu entry for gnome3 as a category different than Other or any of the standard menu labels. Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
