Written on May 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm by

Creating a shortcut in Gnome3 -Fedora 15

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If you are looking for to create shortcut for app that you prefer to use from TAR source, following procedure will help you.
Create new shortcut using existing .desktop file.
sudo cat /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop > /usr/local/share/applications/ffd.desktop

Edit newly created .desktop & change path for executable & images.
sudo gedit /usr/local/share/applications/ffd.desktop
e.g
Exec=/home/dhaval/myappz/nightly/firefox %u
Icon=/home/dhaval/myappz/nightly/icons/mozicon128.png


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  • http://gespadas.com Gregorio Espadas

    Another way to accomplish this, is to create a shorcut or launcher directly on your desktop. 1) Unblock the GNOME Shell Desktop, 2) Create the app launcher. Detailed instructions (in spanish, my language) here: gespadas.com/gnome3-lanzador-aplicaciones Greetings!

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