How do I add or remove icons from the application menu in Gnome 3 or Cinnamon?
For example if I waned to add an icon for a command line application like irssi or wanted to remove a program from the list but leave it installed on the system.
To add a launcher for your user only, put it's desktop file in
~/.local/share/applications/
(~ being your home directory). To add a launcher for all users, put the desktop file in
/usr/share/applications
If you want to learn how to create a desktop file, you can look at the ones already installed on your computer (in /usr/share/applications) or read the desktop file specification.
As for removing icons, I am not familiar with any good method. You can delete the relevant files from /usr/share/applications, but they will come back when you update your system.
Also, I am not aware of a graphical way (that works with Fedora 16) of doing this.
Asked: 2012-02-03 16:24:16 -0500
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Last updated: Feb 04 '12
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