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Katherine1
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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject: [SOLVED][Gnome 3]Add to application search/menu? |
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Compared to the other Gnome 3 questions, this one should be easy. I have a couple programs installed in a directory in my home folder (Eclipse, Neverwinter Nights). In Gnome 2, adding shortcuts to them in the menus was a simple matter. Now, however, I have no clue how to do so. Gnome-shell can't find the programs, and I don't know how to change that.
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Katherine1
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Found the answer. A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications
I couldn't find any information on the file syntax online, but fortunately, it's simple enough to figure out from looking at the other .desktop files in the directory. I wish there was a place where I could put them where they wouldn't be universal, but this is a single-user laptop. It's not much of an issue at this point. |
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| Katherine1 wrote: | Found the answer. A .desktop file needs to be placed in /usr/share/Applications
I couldn't find any information on the file syntax online, but fortunately, it's simple enough to figure out from looking at the other .desktop files in the directory. I wish there was a place where I could put them where they wouldn't be universal, but this is a single-user laptop. It's not much of an issue at this point. |
~/.local/share/applications/ |
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Katherine1
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. That is a better solution that sticking it in the global applications folder. |
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