[plug] gnome program launchers

[Bill Kenworthy]

Creating icons on the desktop for gnome is a black art!  I edit an
existing ~user/.gnome-desktop/shell.desktop file and save under a new
name - by the time I have exited the editor, the desktop has re-read the
directory and its there. Some times I get weird problems and have to
delete, and recreate an otherwise identical desktop file for things to
work!  Also, you do have the "#!/bin/sh" or similar line as the top line
of your shell program?

BillK

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 20:10, Peter J. Nicol wrote:
> I have a shell program that launches another program.
> 
> I would like to make an alias on the desktop that will start the
> program.  Unfortunately making a launcher that points to the shell
> program (.sh, executable) just brings it up in Gedit.
> 
> I have tried to play around with the default programs, but to no avail.
> 
> Anyone know how to get his working?
> 
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