[Novalug] fedora 16: add to menu / desktop

Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 10:37:33 EST 2011


Or you can simply use the gsettings tool:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

Paul

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:34:30PM -0500, greg pryzby wrote:
> tweak-tool allows you to turn on the icons on the desktop.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Roger W. Broseus <rogerb@bronord.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I am trying to add an item to a menu. As I said, Google (as well as
> > fedora fora) were of little help. I saw the item on "alacarte" as well as
> > /usr/share/applications/. I can live without an icon on the desktop - it's
> > necked anyway.
> >
> > I'll take a look at Beartooth's and Greg's suggestions - thanks.
> >
> > Parenthetically, I forgot to add that I went down the tarball hwy in spite
> > of Greg's warnings - I use jEdit quite a bit, have for a long time and trust
> > the source. (Oh: I had to install Java sdk too!).
> >
> > --
> > Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
> >     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
> >     Web Site: www.bronord.com
> >
> > On 11/15/2011 02:06 PM, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, greg pryzby wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure of the problem you are trying to solve.
> >
> > yum install -y gnome-panel
> > yum install -y gnome-tweak-tool
> >
> >        Another possibility is that he just needs to be told of
> > alacarte (and where to find it!) so that he can edit the menus
> > from which he can add launchers to the panel. Where *is* alacarte
> > now? My quick look through the Main Menu and submenus failed to
> > spot it, under whatever name it now wears in menus.
> >
> > Does Fedore 16 still use the .desktop files to create menu entries?
> > is: /usr/share/applications/*.dekstop?



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