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kurt

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Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 140

GNOME3 - Create custom application launcher in favourite panel

Is there a way to do this. I'm using the firefox nightly build. To launch in GNOME3 i have to open the file manager, navigate to the directory that I have unpacked the nightly to, double click the shell script file and then answer the pop up question that I want to run this file.

I've tried drag and drop to the favourite panel but couldn't get it to work.

Once it is running it does show up in the favourite panel and I can right click it and say add to favourites.  This does keep an icon here after I close firefox but when I click on it nothing happens.

Pelikan

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 11

Re: GNOME3 - Create custom application launcher in favourite panel

Hi, just make a firefox-nightly.desktop file in the folder ~/.local/share/applications with contents similar to this

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox-Nightly
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=firefox %u
Icon=firefox
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

Substitue "firefox" under "Exec" with the path to your firefox executable.

Last edited by Pelikan (2011-05-02 09:16:59)

jolinfire

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Re: GNOME3 - Create custom application launcher in favourite panel

Thanks. I will save it when I will have to install my new PC (in a few months) with archlinux on it