[Novalug] launchers
jerry w
jerrywone@gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 14:53:05 EDT 2014
Maybe installing scripts for cross platform ( puppet, cross distro/desktop)
would contain source.
Bitmapped jpg seems too big for an icon, svg? Google Wikipedia .ico Linux?
On Thursday, April 24, 2014, Gary Knott <garyknott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear David, could you tell us how to create a "launcher" icon
> on some common desktops or point to the written descriptions?
> I have tried to figure this out for KDE (absurdly complex)
> and without success on LXDE.
>
> Evidently there are several "methods" - some "environments"
> use a Desktop directory with files that are interpreted to yield
> launcher icons much as Windows does, but others seem not to follow
> this idea.
>
> And in any event getting the "form" to create a launcher seems
> to be obscure. clicking or double-clicking in the "background"
> doesn't work. What does?
>
> Also, what does one do to create a launcher icon of our choosing?
> I would like to create a .jpg or .pdf file of my icon - I know how to do
> that,
> and then ask some program to scale it and make it into an icon
> file - whatever that is.
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Jerry W
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