I’ve already tried something like this but the icon is that of a text document and it just opens as text when clicked. Do I have to install a shell extension for this to work?
I got the first approach to work for me, the cp command. That being said, I’m on CentOS 7.7 with gnome 3.28. Supposedly you CAN INSTALL an extension to get you back to a right mouse click to add an application to your icon to your desktop, but this requires gnome 3.30. The lack of something easier to do this is truly annoying. I feel your pain!
Finally. ln -s doesn’t work. cp and then rightclick on the icon and select
“Allow Launching”. Easy as pie. I develop and do some admin work on Linux servers for some 20 years but GNOME 3 still baffles me. Thanks guys.
I use MATE exclusively. It is a GNOME 2 redezined for Gnome 3 base or something like that. It has ALL you need to work as fast as you can, you can even see all your icons in traybar so you can see instantly if you have messages or mail waiting for you, with just a eyeball movement without touching the mouse. For CentOS 7.7 it is in EPEL, we are still waiting for CentOS 8 rebuilt (from Fedora 28).
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
We shall see. I still have a C6 box with GNOME 2. Relaxing. )
6 thoughts on - How To Add An Application Icon?
Using firefox as an example,
cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop $(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)/
or
ln -s /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop $(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)/
I’ve already tried something like this but the icon is that of a text document and it just opens as text when clicked. Do I have to install a shell extension for this to work?
I got the first approach to work for me, the cp command. That being said, I’m on CentOS 7.7 with gnome 3.28. Supposedly you CAN INSTALL an extension to get you back to a right mouse click to add an application to your icon to your desktop, but this requires gnome 3.30. The lack of something easier to do this is truly annoying. I feel your pain!
Finally. ln -s doesn’t work. cp and then rightclick on the icon and select
“Allow Launching”. Easy as pie. I develop and do some admin work on Linux servers for some 20 years but GNOME 3 still baffles me. Thanks guys.
I use MATE exclusively. It is a GNOME 2 redezined for Gnome 3 base or something like that. It has ALL you need to work as fast as you can, you can even see all your icons in traybar so you can see instantly if you have messages or mail waiting for you, with just a eyeball movement without touching the mouse. For CentOS 7.7 it is in EPEL, we are still waiting for CentOS 8 rebuilt (from Fedora 28).
—
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
We shall see. I still have a C6 box with GNOME 2. Relaxing. )