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. Frields http://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
