how to put icon on desktop

[edwardtanguay]

I installed star office 5.2 but there is still no icon on my desktop (suse 7.0)

how can I create an icon for a program on the desktop (windowslike right click doesn't work)

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[TheGimp]

whats your window manager?

[edwardtanguay]

KDE
the standard which suse 7.0 offers with a default installation

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[TheGimp]

First make a shell script for Star Office.
Create a new file in a text editor and put something like this in it:

cd /usr/local/StarOffice/program
./soffice

save it as staroffice in /usr/local/bin
then
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/staroffice

You should be able to just right click on the desktop and select new > application
and put staroffice under the execute tab and choose an icon http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Test the script by typing staroffice in a terminal. If that works, there should be no reason a desktop shortcut won't work.

[Zhia]

I'm thinking of making an icon on the desktop that activates telnet to a certain address eg telnet 123.456.789.012 Any pointers ?
I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with KDE. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[TheGimp]

Make a shortcut like above and put

telnet 123.456.789.012

as the file you want to execute. Just make sure you set it to open in a console/terminal

[MkIII_Supra]

How about a simpler method, right mouse click on the desktop then select "Create New Application" from there simply name it, select an icon for it then set you permissions give it the path to the executable then put any notes you want on the last tab and badaboom! You have a desktop icon.
KISS!

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