Software Installs

[Jim Herrmann]

On Tuesday 30 October 2001 06:38 pm, Don Erickson wrote:
>
> The command line is your friend.  If you'd rather mouse-click to start
> things, once you find the binary that launches the program you can drag
> and drop it from a file manager onto your desktop.  Also,
> /usr/share/doc/<program name> might contain information.
>

Once you have drug and dropped, creating a link, then you can go into the 
properties of the link and change the icon.  This is in KDE in Mandrake, but 
something similar should exist for your distro:  Right click->Properties, 
click on the icon, other icons, browse to the directory containing the 
application icons, which in the case of Star Office 6.0 is 
/usr/local/staroffice6.0/share/kde/icons/ and then I use 
001_star_butterfly.l.xpm for my desktop.  Your preference my vary.  Also, you 
can configure the file types of for example *.doc to automatically launch 
Star Office when you click on them in Konqueror.

Can't help you with Gnome, but I'm sure there is similar functionality.

HTH,
Jim