create shortcut in red hat

[magmo]

Hi


A have a newbie question, I have installed Firefox in my red hat 9 system, but I would like to have a shortcut on the desktop or the startmenu to start up firefox. How do I add that?


Regards

 

[Chacalinc]

do you have a ~/Desktop" folder in your home path?

or ricght-click the background and "create a launcher"

Cheers.

 

[zeland]

A shortcut in Windows is known as a symlink in *nix (somebody corrent me if I'm wrong). You would create a symlink just as you would in Windows - almost. Just drag the program executable from the installation directory to your desktop, but before you release the mouse button hold the alt key then release. In the context menu, choose link here.

Alternately, you can use a launcher. Just right click on your desktop and select create launcher from the context menu. Then fill in a name, program location and icon of preference.


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[magmo]

Worked just fine, thanks a lot

 

[AdaHacker]

A shortcut in Windows is known as a symlink in *nix (somebody corrent me if I'm wrong)."

You're wrong. As far as I know, Windows doesn't have a direct equivalent to symlinks. Windows shortcuts are much closer to GNOME and KDE .desktop files (what you refer to as launchers) than to symbolic links. They can store information on command-line parameters, the file's icon, a description, whether the program should run in a terminal, and so forth. Symlinks can't do any of this. They just redriect you to the target file or directory and that's about it.

 

[zeland]

Thanks AdaHacker. It's been a while since I've used a shortcut on a Win machine. Somehow kept thinking shortcut==symlink and *.pif==launcher.


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