Hi,

Well after I switched back I added it again and out of interest refreshed the desktop and... sure enough... the icon had appeared

Hehe, well that's that sorted out - tyvm all those who helped. One more question while I'm at it... if I've written a shell script and have it in /home/james/scripts/script can I somehow alias it with a single word for example I could type mangotree in the root directory and it would execute that script?

Thanks,
James.

There are many things you can do about it:
1. Include this directory in your path
2. Make a link of this script to /usr/local/bin (only root can do rhat)
3. Do an alias:
for 1,3 to make it permanent you need to add it in some start up file like /home/james/.bashrc

Also in case you don't know it your home directory is ~.
SO if you loggin as james,
"cd ~" is the same as cd "/home/james/" and '/home/james/scripts/script' is '~/scripts/script'.
if you need anothers home directory, (lets say you are root and want to go to james' home directory) you type cd ~james.
Also the files that start with . are hidden files. .bashrc is present but you need "ls -la" or "ls -a" to see it.
I don't know how newbie you are...hope it helps

*EDIT*
You can create launchers in gnome. You don't need to switch to KDE to do that. If I switch to Fedora (I'm dual booting slack and fedora) I'll show you how. I don't have installed gnome in slackware.

Hi,

Thanks for that, worked a treat .

Thanks,
James.