Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (3) </ [1] 2 3 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: How to add Programs to the DSL menu?< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
windancer Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 67
Joined: April 2005
Posted: Aug. 15 2008,09:41 QUOTE
ive been searching high and low. how do I add a program to the DSL menu? ive downloaded gaim and gimp and would love to add them to the menu for quick starts. I dont want to put th e icons out on the desktop its nice and clean. any help would be much appreciated or a lead to the howto. thanks much
Back to top
Profile PM AOL 
Juanito Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 1601
Joined: Sep. 2005
Posted: Aug. 15 2008,10:00 QUOTE
Don't the gaim/gimp extensions have a menu entry already - or did you compile them yourself?

You don't mention if you're using dsl-3.x or dsl-4.x - in dsl-3.x the menu entry is in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop and in dsl-4.x it is in /tmp/."something with menu in the name" (I'm not at a dsl machine at the moment). You can copy and modify an existing entry to make your own.
Back to top
Profile PM 
windancer Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 67
Joined: April 2005
Posted: Aug. 15 2008,10:07 QUOTE
Quote (Juanito @ Aug. 15 2008,10:00)
Don't the gaim/gimp extensions have a menu entry already - or did you compile them yourself?

You don't mention if you're using dsl-3.x or dsl-4.x - in dsl-3.x the menu entry is in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop and in dsl-4.x it is in /tmp/."something with menu in the name" (I'm not at a dsl machine at the moment). You can copy and modify an existing entry to make your own.

im using dsl-4.x I downloaded those programs using my dsl. how do I make my own entry? for instance does it have something to do with the gaim.lnk file it reads like this:
table Icon
 Type: Program
 Caption: Gaim-1.3.1
 Command: /usr/bin/start_gaim
 Icon: .xtdesktop/gaim-gtk2-1.3.1.png
 X: 495
 Y: 185
end
I just dont know what to do with that or where to put it
Back to top
Profile PM AOL 
Juanito Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 1601
Joined: Sep. 2005
Posted: Aug. 15 2008,10:53 QUOTE
The file you mention is for dsl-3.x, as said, the equivalent file for dsl-4.x is in /tmp/.*menu* (sorry I cannot remember the exact folder name) - this folder will already contain menu items for the base dsl that you can copy.

If you download gimp-1.2.uci from mydsl testing, it already has a menu item for dsl-4.x
Back to top
Profile PM 
windancer Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 67
Joined: April 2005
Posted: Aug. 15 2008,11:00 QUOTE
Quote (Juanito @ Aug. 15 2008,10:53)
The file you mention is for dsl-3.x, as said, the equivalent file for dsl-4.x is in /tmp/.*menu* (sorry I cannot remember the exact folder name) - this folder will already contain menu items for the base dsl that you can copy.

If you download gimp-1.2.uci from mydsl testing, it already has a menu item for dsl-4.x

once I copy it what do I do with it? also I have checked everything in /tmp there is no info in there. there is a folder called mydsl.menu but its empty
Back to top
Profile PM AOL 
12 replies since Aug. 15 2008,09:41 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (3) </ [1] 2 3 >/ 		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: How to add Programs to the DSL menu?

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code