Question about fedora 16 desktop shortcuts

[zarzonis]

Hi guys, i just turned to fedora 16 from windows 7 and as you can imagine it's a little hard for me to get used to it. I don't know how to add some programms from my applications as shortcuts on my deskop. Can you help me with this?
Thank you in advance!

[hazel]

Right-click on your desktop and you should see an option to create a launcher. A dialog will appear and you can supply a name and browse to the command and to a suitable icon. Most applications are in the /usr/bin folder and their icons in /usr/share/pixmaps. This site should help you.

btw, you'll find that when Linux programs install, they do not automatically put an icon on your desktop. That's considered very rude. It's your desktop; if you want icons, you put them there yourself.

[zarzonis]

the problem is that when i press right click on desktop nothing happens. Somehow the right click on my desktop is dead...

[jayd512]

Since you're using Fedora 16, I'm assuming that you are using Gnome 3.
So, AFAIK, you can't add shortcuts in the traditional sense.
You can, however, add items to the dock on the left hand side.

[PairOfBlanks2]

Here's what I did (start to finish)

In your terminal:

su -c 'yum install gnome-tweak-tool' # (root password required)
gnome-tweak-tool

In the graphical interface:

click "Desktop"
toggle "Have file manager handle the desktop" to "ON"
close

In the terminal again:

ln -s /usr/bin/evolution $HOME/Desktop/

Evolution is just an example here. Supply the path to any program.

[atreyu]

I haven't test creating desktop shortcut with it, but you might want to try the cinnamon port (from Linux Mint) for Fedora 16. It gives Gnome that 2.x feel, which might include old-school desktop integration.

There's a thread about it in the Coffee Lounger here at LF.

Edit: the link - http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...gnome-2-x.html

[vich00ss]

ya..! cinnamon is a nice option. go for that...

[kurtdriver]

Here has a post telling how to easily do that. You don't need Cinnamon. The problem with gnome-shell is the defaults. Change the preferences from the default and you're all right.

[atreyu]

You might also be interested in the gnome extensions website.

https://extensions.gnome.org/

It went "live" a few weeks ago, I think. It is a collection of Gnome 3 specific tweaks that have been around since Fedora 15, but were not deemed stable enough to turn loose on the general public yet. I don't know if it has what you are looking for in regards to this post, but maybe there's something juicy there...