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08-25-2014, 07:05 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mint 20.3 MATE, Android, Windows 10, MX Linux and Mint 21.1 MATE
Posts: 1,071
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Mendeley Desktop
I am trying to have Mendeley Desktop become a program in the programs list for start up. But as is I have to use the download and a command in the terminal to open it. Is there a fix?
Using Mint 17, 64 bit.
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08-25-2014, 09:55 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
Distribution: Debian Testing Amd64
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Why not just make a desktop shortcut to it. What DE are you using? KDE? Gnome? something else?
jdk
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09-03-2014, 12:24 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mint 20.3 MATE, Android, Windows 10, MX Linux and Mint 21.1 MATE
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Using MATE, on Mint 17. It so far needs a terminal open and a command line to open, but on another computer it was in the educational software list and clicked to start up, nicely.
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09-04-2014, 09:03 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
Distribution: Debian Testing Amd64
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You didn't really answer my question in post #2. What DE are you using? I have no idea which DE Mint 17 uses. What is the problem with a desktop shortcut? You can configure the shortcut with any command you wish.
jdk
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09-04-2014, 12:54 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: NOVA
Distribution: Debian 12
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Originally Posted by jdkaye
You didn't really answer my question in post #2. What DE are you using? I have no idea which DE Mint 17 uses. What is the problem with a desktop shortcut? You can configure the shortcut with any command you wish.
jdk
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Yes he/she did the OP is using Mate.. |
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09-04-2014, 10:49 PM
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Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Germany_chris
Yes he/she did the OP is using Mate..
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Ok, and Mate is a fork of Gnome. So I guess Mate has desktop shortcuts. What is the problem with using one of them?
jdk |
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09-09-2014, 07:44 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mint 20.3 MATE, Android, Windows 10, MX Linux and Mint 21.1 MATE
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When downloading Mendeley desktop, I had to unpackage a file, to be honest I need to know how to do that properly. Open, or extract, and to which place? It is a Tar.bz2 file.
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09-09-2014, 07:47 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Location: NOVA
Distribution: Debian 12
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I use my file manager to extract to my home folder, then cd into the file then:
./configure
make
make install
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