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Got myself a linux netbook and haven't got a clue.....
There's 2 things in particular i'm looking to find out and after searching on both I can find no answer that takes my ignorance into account!
1, How do I find out what I have; gnome, kde, python, debian etc.
2, I want to add some desktop shortcuts for apps I have downloaded and installed. Can someone help? Right clicking does nothing (on the desktop) and I can find nothing that makes it easy......
i dunno about debian or what desktop you are running but in fedora using gnome i rite-clik on a file and select make link then i could copy that link to my desktop.
with what little info i have on you, the only standard way to do what you want is to open up a terminal and type
Distribution: Slackware64 14.2 and current, SlackwareARM current
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It's a somehow basic way of doing it. Open up a terminal window, change to your Desktop folder ("cd Desktop") and create a desktop file (for example "touch name-of-your-app.desktop"). Open this file in a text editor of your choice (for example "gedit name-of-your-app.desktop", I suspect you have Ubuntu installed, else try "kedit ...") and paste the following in there:
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Utility;
Comment=Any long comment as you like
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=binary-of-your-app
GenericName=Write here what you like
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/name-of-any-icon.png
Name=Name-of-your-app
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Value=1.0
StartupNotify=false
Change the lines with "Exec" and "Icon" to your needs, if you like also "Comment" and "Generic Name", but those two are not that important. There's no need to prefix your binary with /usr/lib etc. as long it is in one of the standard folders.
Then save the file with UTF-8 encoding!! Right after that you should have a new Desktop Icon.
EDIT: This would put the app under "Utilities". This can be changed, too, but for a test this should be fine.
Last edited by titopoquito; 12-19-2008 at 05:44 PM.
So, I'm a bot confused here. Is this asking for an application name and whatever shortcut name I want on it? If so, that still doesn't actually get it on the desktop does it?
A few minutes with Google, and it sounds like your eee uses a customized install of Xandros Linux with KDE desktop. You could try the command "locate kde | grep bin | less" to see if the system lists any files with "kde" in the name that are in a binary (bin) directory.
By the way, to cause pauses in the output from a cli command, do as follows:
mycommand | less
This tells bash to get the output from "mycommand" and send it into the command "less." "Less" is a little program that lets you scroll up and down through a bunch of output. Just hit q when you're done looking.
Is this asking for an application name and whatever shortcut name I want on it? If so, that still doesn't actually get it on the desktop does it?
It should if you right clicked in your file manager, selected 'create symbolid link' while you were in the /home/username/Desktop/ directory. The link to needs to be the actual path to the program, the link name can be whatever you want.
It should if you right clicked in your file manager, selected 'create symbolid link' while you were in the /home/username/Desktop/ directory. The link to needs to be the actual path to the program, the link name can be whatever you want.
Ok, ow i understand how it should work but i can't see the desktop directory....... just a file called .desktop
You should have an icon which looks like a small house on your Desktop when you boot. Open it. In the location bar it will show where you are, for example: Location: file:/home/username, you should see a directory called Desktop, click on that to open it. So what happens when you click on the "Desktop" image in that directory, blue one with pad/pencil?
You should have an icon which looks like a small house on your Desktop when you boot. Open it. In the location bar it will show where you are, for example: Location: file:/home/username, you should see a directory called Desktop, click on that to open it. So what happens when you click on the "Desktop" image in that directory, blue one with pad/pencil?
It's the .desktop directory and it when opened has 2 files:
.directory
Home.desktop
To be honest i think i'll just set the thing up on XP,,,,,,
Distribution: Slackware64 14.2 and current, SlackwareARM current
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As I wrote, change to your .desktop folder, create a new file in there from file manager or from a command line window, call it "name-of-my-app.desktop", edit this file with a text editor and put in the stuff I wrote above.
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