[ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

John Taylor john.68taylor at btinternet.com
Tue Jun 26 17:21:12 BST 2007


Mark Jose wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:49, John Taylor wrote:
>
>   
>> Sorry but its KDE
>>
>> Extra cheers
>> John
>>     
>
> No problem!
> Right click the menu button in the bottom left of your screen, and select Menu 
> Editor.
> As this is a browser, right click the Internet option in the Menu Editor 
> option which has now come up.
> Click New Item and, in the Dialog box, type in SeaMonkey or whatever you want 
> to call it.
> When you click OK, you will get a new area on the right, which has now filled 
> in the name you chose and has a selection of different vacant spaces.
> In Description, you can add one if you wish - e.g browser - but it isn't 
> needed.
> Nor is comment.
> The important box is Command. There, you need to add the command to start 
> SeaMonkey. It will probably be - 
> /home/john/seamonkey1.1.2/seamonkey  or 
> perhaps /home/john/seamonkey1.1.2/seamonkey/seamonkey   Basically, it is the 
> full path to the actual seamonkey command you are using at the command line. 
> Trial and error will find the correct path if you are not sure I expect.
> That is all you need. (See below for the icon) Click Save and the menu will be 
> updated - SeaMonkey will now reside under the menu > Internet.
> The icon will be horrible though!  I would expect there is a SeaMonkey icon 
> installed for you, but you will need to discover where that is. 
> Probable locations are in /usr/share/seamonkey if that exists - perhaps in a 
> folder called icons in there even?  Otherwise, I can install it fully here 
> and find the icon if you can't locate it. It could be in the seamonkey 
> directory in your /home , but /usr/share is the usual place.
> To change the icon, simply use the Menu Editor as above, and click the square 
> box which contains the rather boring file type icon. It will bring up a menu 
> to locate the icon you wish to use. Click "Other Icons" and use the Browse 
> button to go to where the SeaMonkey icon is (e.g /usr/share/seamonkey/icons).
> Click the icon you want to use and then save. 
> All done!
> You can add icons to your desktop from the menu by dragging them to the 
> desktop and choosing "Link here" from the menu which appears should you wish 
> to.
>
> Hope that is useful John - if you get stuck, feel free to shout!
>
> Mark
>
>   
For the life of me i cant find the correct path, none of your 
suggestions or my permutations will work. What on earth am I doing wrong?

John
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