Re: How does one make program launchers?

[Matt Novenstern <fisxoj gmail com>]

Hi Michael!

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 20:40 -0500, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> So, apologies in advance for the stupid question.  I'm still trying to
> figure out how Gnome 3 ticks.
> 
> When running Gnome 2, I was able to make a program launcher that I could
> add to the status bar in order to click on it.  Gnome 3 has "favorites"
> in the dash.  How do I, as a user, make it so that there is something in
> the dash that I can click on to run 'emacsclient -a "" -c -n'?
> 

Take a look in ~/.local/share/applications at the .desktop files.  You
probably want to make one with a line like

Exec=emacsclient -a "" -c -n

and a

Name=My Emacs Client Command

or something less dumb.

On Fedora 16, I already have an Emacs Client shortcut that was installed
with emacs at /usr/share/applications/emacsclient.desktop.

Hope that helps some!

Matt