[CLUE-Tech] Adding Desktop Icon under Gnome

[Jef Barnhart]

I was just goofing around and this may help.

go to the "foot" (program menu) 
find your program
left click and drag to the desk top.

This has worked for me under Mandrake 8.1

Jef

On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 01:31:14 -0700
BOF <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:

> >
> >
> >Thus spoke David Willson
> >
> >>Is this a trick question?
> >>
> No, it isn't. At the time I posed it, I could not find any mention of 
> how to put an icon on the desktop to launch a program:  the Gnome user's 
> guide is not installed under Slackware or FreeBSD, there are no 
> Gnome-specific USENET groups, and the link to the User Guide on the 
> Gnome site would not come up. I was desperate and so turned to CLUE.
> 
> And I am still having problems. Currently, the only way that I can get 
> an icon onto the desktop, as a user, is to create a launcher on the 
> panel and then drag it to the desktop, or, if the application is on the 
> menu, to drag it from the menu to the desktop. When I right-click on the 
> desktop, there is no choice for a launcher: I get a selection of "New 
> Window, New Folder, or New Terminal."
> 
> Even then, dragging from the panel does not always work. I have a 
> launcher for Netscape on the panel that works fine, but when dragged to 
> the desktop, it will not load the application, or do anything for that 
> matter.
> 
> I am also having trouble getting the icons I place on the desktop to 
> come up when Gnome starts. I can get them to show up by launching 
> Nautilus after Gnome loads, but when Gnome initially loads, the desktop 
> is blank.
> 
> After fiddling with Gnome for several days now, I am not very impressed 
> with it. Apparently the paradigm it expects its users to follow is not 
> the same as KDE or Windows. Either that, or I have a faulty installation 
> or have something configured wrong.
> 
> Which is always possible <g>.
> 
> BOF
> 
> 
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