1:56 p.m.
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??
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1:50 p.m.
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.
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4:30 a.m.
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.
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6:28 p.m.
New subject: control-center?? -- SOLVED
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've
been 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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9:35 a.m.
New subject: control-center?? -- SOLVED
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!
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4:08 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
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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.
1:27 p.m.
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.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686
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10:35 a.m.
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.
9:43 a.m.
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 ....
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9:40 a.m.
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:36:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
2008/11/2 Beartooth <Beartooth(a)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 weirdly
> unrecognizable 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.
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1:49 a.m.
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
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4:14 p.m.
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
3:36 p.m.
2008/11/2 Beartooth <Beartooth(a)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 weirdly
unrecognizable other name there??
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