Ubuntu Launcher

Gerry Boland gerry.boland at canonical.com
Mon Nov 14 08:59:09 UTC 2011


On 14/11/11 00:02, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> Hi
>
>>> Anybody knows how to replace the 11.10 Launcher for the 11.04 Pulldown Menu?
>> You can't.  If you have programs you use regularly you can fix them to
>> the launcher by opening them and right clicking the icon in the
>> launcher and selecting Keep in Launcher (or something similar).
>> Alternatively if you know the name of the app you want to run, hit the
>> Super (windows) key to bring up the dash and start typing the name of
>> the app.  After three or four characters it should find the one you
>> want and once it is first in the list you can just hit enter to run
>> it.  So for example to run the calculator I hit Super then cal and
>> enter and it is runs.
> Can I at least modify the command line of each launcher? Say I wish to
> pass an argument to Firefox each time I launch it, where do I go to
> edit the path of the Mozilla icon?
>

Have a look in the firefox.desktop file, located in 
/usr/share/applications. You can add flags to the
   Exec=firefox %u
line, but note this will change firefox globally (except when run via 
command line).
-G




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