Creating shortcuts

[Deron Meranda]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:39:01 -0800, Barry Yu
<barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Leandro Melo wrote:
> >I've installed a program under /usr/. 
> >How can I create a shortcut to this program and place it on my
> >desktop, so I could start this program just by clicking over it's
> >icon?
> At the desktop where is empty, right click and you will see 1 of the
> items is add launcher, select it and you will see adding description to
> this launcher ( short cut), and which program this launcher is going to
> execute, and icon to choose from.

If it's a standalone executable that creates its own windows (and doesn't
need to be run inside a terminal or anything), you can get by without
creating a launcher by something as simple as,

  $  cd ~/Desktop
  $  ln -s /usr/bin/my_new_program .

This of course is not the the official way and you don't get a lot of extras
(like icons or multilingual labels), but it's quick and does work (at least
under Gnome).

-- 
Deron Meranda