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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Tonamiben wrote: </FONT></DIV>
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everyone and thank's for this oportunity to post on this list...</TT><BR><BR><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">I am a newbie to Linux and recently I installed Fedora core 1
I think I am sold to Linux now, even since I get small problems...
anyways, I downloaded binaries from Pingus game website, it work great when I started it from
a terminal; I CD to the folder of the game than type games/pingus than the
game start like a charm !
I tried to make a launcher many times because I want it easy start for my kids,
unsuccessful every times, what is the good method to make a launcher in the start menu and/or on the Gnome desktop ?</PRE><BR><TT>Thank's
many time !</TT><BR><BR><TT>Tonamiben ;-) </TT></BLOCKQUOTE><TT>
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<DIV><BR>Try this out:</TT><BR><BR><TT>1. Write down on a piece of paper the
complete path to the executable file for the game -- you'll need that in a
second!</TT><BR><BR></DIV><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">2. On a clean part of the task bar, right-click, and select
Add to Panel -> Launcher...</PRE>
<DIV><BR><TT>3. Create Launcher will appear. Insert a name for the game, and
in the space provided for the Command, enter the complete path to the
executable you wrote down earlier.</TT><BR><BR><TT>4. You'll want a nice
icon for the task bar, so let's select one by clicking on Browse. On my FC1
box, it opens /usr/share/pixmaps, which has many, many icons to select
from.</TT><BR><BR><TT>5. In the Type box, make sure it's saying
Application.</TT><BR><BR><TT>6. Click OK.</TT><BR><BR><TT>At this point, you
should have an icon on your task bar that will allow you to click to start
your game.</TT><BR><BR><TT>If you want an icon for the desktop, try dragging
the icon you created to the desktop.</TT><BR><BR><TT>However, this doesn't
address how to put a launcher in your start menu, but there are some
cautions against editing the menu. See this url for additional
details:</TT><BR><BR><TT><A
href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81215">http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81215</A></TT><BR><BR></DIV><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">Hope this helps,
Clint</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em"> </PRE><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you to Clint for the answer on the launcher. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is now the status;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To create a launcher there is no problem except for Pingus. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I found out that I was missing some arguments to my binary to tell it where to look for the data files.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again I tried to apply those arguments in the terminal, that is working very well.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But for the launcher, the same arguments don't work, so I choose run in a terminal when I create the launcher,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unsuccessfully. Maybe I am missing something important ?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please help</FONT></DIV></PRE></BODY></HTML>