How do I get a control-center launcher on my panel??
It seems I have it, all right :
[btth@Thpd30 ~]$ rpm -q control-center control-center-2.20.3-3.fc8 [btth@Thpd30 ~]$
But I can't find it in the Main Menu. Does it wear some weirdly unrecognizable other name there??
2008/11/2 Beartooth Beartooth@swva.net:
How do I get a control-center launcher on my panel?? It seems I have it, all right :[btth@Thpd30 ~]$ rpm -q control-center control-center-2.20.3-3.fc8 [btth@Thpd30 ~]$
But I can't find it in the Main Menu. Does it wear some weirdlyunrecognizable other name there??
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If you go to System/Prefrences/Aspect and Style/Principal menu you can activate it
Beartooth wrote:
How do I get a control-center launcher on my panel??
It seems I have it, all right :
[btth@Thpd30 ~]$ rpm -q control-center control-center-2.20.3-3.fc8 [btth@Thpd30 ~]$
But I can't find it in the Main Menu. Does it wear some weirdly unrecognizable other name there??
Command line -
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 19:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
How do I get a control-center launcher on my panel??
It seems I have it, all right :
[btth@Thpd30 ~]$ rpm -q control-center control-center-2.20.3-3.fc8 [btth@Thpd30 ~]$
But I can't find it in the Main Menu. Does it wear some weirdly unrecognizable other name there??
When faced with that sort of question, do an "rpm -ql" query on the package, you can see a list of what it contains. Doing a grep for bin on the output should narrow things down to the executable parts (since they'll usually have bin somewhere in the filepath).
e.g. rpm -ql control-center | grep bin
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:36:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
2008/11/2 Beartooth Beartooth@swva.net:
How do I get a control-center launcher on my panel??
[...]
But I can't find it in the Main Menu. Does it wear some weirdlyunrecognizable other name there??
If you go to System/Prefrences/Aspect and Style/Principal menu you can activate it
Curiouser and curiouser : I don't have "Aspect and Style" there, much less any submenus of it.
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:19:52 +1030, Tim wrote: [....]
When faced with that sort of question, do an "rpm -ql" query on the package, you can see a list of what it contains. Doing a grep for bin on the output should narrow things down to the executable parts (since they'll usually have bin somewhere in the filepath).
e.g. rpm -ql control-center | grep bin
Well, that gets it all right; many thanks!
It seems strange there's no icon; maybe the time has come for me to try to make one ....
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:43, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:19:52 +1030, Tim wrote: [....]
When faced with that sort of question, do an "rpm -ql" query on the package, you can see a list of what it contains. Doing a grep for bin on the output should narrow things down to the executable parts (since they'll usually have bin somewhere in the filepath).
e.g. rpm -ql control-center | grep bin
Well, that gets it all right; many thanks!
It seems strange there's no icon; maybe the time has come for me to try to make one ....
I found some icons for the Gnome control center in /usr/share/icons/gnome. Under scalable/categories, and 32x32/categories. There may be smaller ones, but my eyes arn't too good.
Nigel.
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
It seems strange there's no icon; maybe the time has come for me to try to make one ....
Do you mean with the package in general, or that you didn't get a menu entry created for it?
Here, I use Gnome, and there's a menu item for it in the preferences section, using a generic-looking preferences sort of icon (three sliding controls with knobs on a box). The image comes from: /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/categories/gnome-control-center.svg (a scalable vector graphic), and there's several PNGs that come in the RPM, too.
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:57:12 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
It seems strange there's no icon; maybe the time has come for me to try to make one ....
Do you mean with the package in general, or that you didn't get a menu entry created for it?
The latter.
Here, I use Gnome, and there's a menu item for it in the preferences section, using a generic-looking preferences sort of icon (three sliding controls with knobs on a box). The image comes from: /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/categories/gnome-control-center.svg (a scalable vector graphic), and there's several PNGs that come in the RPM, too.
I have that on some machines, and not others. Where I have it, I put it on my bottom panel, and find it a great convenience.
Where I don't have it (and I have no idea why not), I want to get it.
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:19:52 +1030, Tim wrote: [....]
When faced with that sort of question, do an "rpm -ql" query on the package, you can see a list of what it contains. Doing a grep for bin on the output should narrow things down to the executable parts (since they'll usually have bin somewhere in the filepath).
e.g. rpm -ql control-center | grep bin
Well, that gets it all right; many thanks!
It seems strange there's no icon; maybe the time has come for me to try to make one ....
I think all the the things in gnome-control-center exist in menus.
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Tim:
Do you mean with the package in general, or that you didn't get a menu entry created for it?
Beartooth:
The latter.
Have you been editing the menus? As well as options for adding or changing menu content, you can simply turn some entries on or off.
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:00:21 +1030, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Do you mean with the package in general, or that you didn't get a menu entry created for it?
Beartooth:
The latter.
Have you been editing the menus? As well as options for adding or changing menu content, you can simply turn some entries on or off.
No, I haven't. I know I installed the app to do it, but I've been more concerned with other things, and haven't even tried it.
I just found one, called alacarte. On the machines without the Control Center on the panel, sure enough, it was unchecked there, God knows why. So I checked it, and various other intriguing stuff besides.
Anyway, I have it now.
Many, many thanks!
Tim:
Have you been editing the menus? As well as options for adding or changing menu content, you can simply turn some entries on or off.
Beartooth:
No, I haven't. I know I installed the app to do it, but I'vebeen more concerned with other things, and haven't even tried it.
I just found one, called alacarte.
I thought you were using Fedora 9? You don't need to add an editor program, it should be possible to edit menus just by right-clicking on the top of the menu.
On the machines without the Control Center on the panel, sure enough, it was unchecked there, God knows why. So I checked it, and various other intriguing stuff besides.
I don't know why some computers would be different than others. But the default menus are set up from .desktop files from, at least, within /usr/share/applications/ (though there's other places, too), where you can look through them to see if there's any "hidden" or "OnlyShowIn=Gnome" settings. Hint: locate .desktop
Personalisations are stored inside your homespace, which will override the system ones. Look in: ~/.local/share/applications/
Some .desktop files won't be used directly for menus, they'll be used by other things, that make use of the same format.
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