Re: Embarassingly simple Q

[Rémi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>]

John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:

> I've been using Gnome with Nautilus for a while now, either as Ximian 1.0 or
> 1.4, or more recently as the Gnome 1.4 build shipped with Mandrake 8.1.
> Unfortunately I never really picked up some basics. Coming from Window Maker,
> which I used for years, I never really dealt with a desktop. Now that I want to
> use the desktop features of Gnome and Nautilus, I can't do some simple tasks.
>
> The most embarassing task I have been unable to sucessfully complete
> consistently is creating desktop icons (links) for applications (Netscape, Pan)
> or shell scripts (to start Java applications for example). Could someone shed
> some light on the logic behind links and the Gnome/Nautilus desktop or point me
> to some good docs? I've tried the Nautilus manual, it seems out of date. I
> didn't see anything over at the Gnome site that jumped out at me either.


For icons, just drag/drop icons from menus or (for advanced users) create .desktop files.
For Scripts, put your scripts in ~/.gnome-desktop/nautilus-scripts. They will appears in a nautilus popup menu and will give you 
some context infos in env vars (a popup should display some help).


> thanks!
>
> John LeMay Jr.
> Senior Enterprise Consultant
> NJMC, LLC.
>
>
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