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June 5, 2017 03:34
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Adding launcher to Gnome destop
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I finally had a pressing need to create my own custom launcher in Gnome. I did not know how to do this but I found numerous examples | |
on the Internet. Here is a brief description of how I added a launcher for seamonkey edito. The file below is in /home/kurtis/Desktop. | |
[Desktop Entry] | |
Name=Seamonkey Composer | |
GenericName=SeamonkeyComposer | |
Exec=/home/kurtis/bin/seamonkey/seamonkey -editor "/home/kurtis/dev/html/KWRNewTab.html" | |
# Icon=[icon file [optional]] | |
Type=Application | |
StartupNotify=true | |
Notice that I passed a file to the seamonkey program. This HTML file represents my essential URLs and I have a copy on every | |
account. | |
I also copied the above file to /usr/share/applications directory. | |
sudo cp Desktop/seamonkey-editor.desktop /usr/share/applications/. | |
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Another solution:
Putting in the parameter -editor /home/kurtis/dev/html/KWRNewTab.html will not let you save the entry.
and add the parameters: -editor /home/kurtis/dev/html/KWRNewTab.html
to the Exec= line.