[PLUG] Creating a new launch item in Unity
Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 04:16:54 UTC 2013
I am beginning to understand people's dislike of Unity. I use the
term dislike to be generous.
I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and am trying to use Unity. Please
refrain from the cat-calls and I-told-you-sos. Humor me. Try to
help.
I want to create a new launch item in the launcher, specifically
gnome-terminal -e virtualbox.
The "help" says drag the icon of the application to the launcher. OK.
Create an icon.
Using Dash, I enter in the search bar "terminal". I get two application
hits: Xterm and Uxterm. Neither of them are gnome-terminal which is
what is launched using the "terminal" icon in the launch bar. And a
search in Dash for gnome-terminal yields nothing. Yet top shows
gnome-terminal to be running when I use that icon, and "which
gnome-terminal" shows /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. wtf.
Also, I can launch but one terminal from the launcher. I need to use
the first terminal to launch another.
So I guess I need to find some non-gui way to put something in the launcher.
I know most here know better than to use Unity, but if some brave soul
has some knowledge which might help, I would appreciate hearing it.
Thanks,
-Denis
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