Items appearing in the Launcher -> Add New Item

Thomas Eriksson thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu
Thu Dec 19 23:14:52 CET 2013



On 12/19/2013 01:37 PM, Bob Snyder wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 01:21 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have added a bunch of .desktop files for local applications to
>> /usr/local/share/applications/. These show up in the menus and in
>> the "Application Search". But they do not appear in the "Launcher ->
>> Add New Item" dialog.
>>
>> How can I make the applications appear in that dialog?
>>
>> I'm using Xfce 4.8 from EPEL on RHEL6.
>>
>> 	Thomas
>>
> 
> One way is to drag and drop the icon from the Application Finder into
> the Launcher's dialog.
> 
> Bob S.
> 

Thank you for that suggestion, it works perfectly.

	Thomas



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