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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: Snake X on February 11, 2012, 05:07:44 pm
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I just installed linux mint and chrome but its makeing me PO'd. I can't create a shortcut to chrome without having to add some script and even then when I search for chrome in the create launcher window I CANT FIND IT
I have never had so much trouble adding a simple shortcut on a desktop.. >:(
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You should be able to drag it on the desktop.(it will also stay in the menu)
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Nope. Can't do that :-/
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Snake X are you using gnome 3 or cinnamon? I'm not sure how well gnome 3 supports launchers and I know cinnamon has them being developed. and did you install chrome or chromium? chromium is the version of chrome that most people use on linux(that I know of)
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I just installed chrome from the google website. I am using linux mint 12 x 64 (lisa)
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you should go with chromium instead. if you want what you have, though, then you can make a custom .desktop file.
just right click and make and empty file on your desktop, and then rename it chrome.desktop. then paste this inside it:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Google Chrome
# Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName, so we reuse the KDE strings.
# From Ubuntu's language-pack-kde-XX-base packages, version 9.04-20090413.
GenericName=Web Browser
# Gnome and KDE 3 uses Comment.
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U
Terminal=false
Icon=google-chrome
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;NewIncognito
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
TargetEnvironment=Unity
[NewIncognito Shortcut Group]
Name=New Incognito Window
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --incognito
TargetEnvironment=Unity