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Desktop Icon for GIMP in Puppy 4.3 (solved)
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wildsi
Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 12 Location: Manchester, UK |
I have installed GIMP onto Puppy 4.3, but I cannot see it in the menu. I can however open GIMP via actions in Mtpaint. In puppy 4.2, GIMP appeared in the graphics menu after refreshing the menus. Is there a way of creating a shortcut to GIMP (or indeed a web page) on the desktop? Many thanks, Simon _________________ M810 motherboard, 640MB RAM, AMD Duron 1GHz, 20Gb HD (1 partition ext2), Puppy 4.3.1 CD boot Edited_time_total |
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davids45
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 376 Location: Chatswood, NSW |
G'day, If you look in /usr/share/applications with ROX, can you find the gimp.desktop file (or icon)? (Check with 4.2.1 as well as 4.3.) If it's there, drag the Gimp icon onto your desktop/pinboard and you should be right for that way of starting Gimp. Once it's on the pinboard/desktop, I usually edit the text under the icon removing the ".desktop" - in this case, to be just "Gimp". If in /usr/share/applications you open the gimp.desktop file "as text", you could edit this file if you can work out why it is not appearing in your menus. Again compare 4.2.1 with 4.3 if that helps. If you can't find the Gimp desktop file, can you see a Gimp file in the hidden /root/.packages directory? This gimp text file should list where every Gimp file was installed from the Pet. See if you can track down where things may have gone. David S. |
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Brown Mouse
Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 99 Location: Tenerife Canary Islands |
I have had the exact same issues with opening Gimp and here is the easy fix for that and any similar problem. 1. Create new directory in my-documents called "scripts" 2. Open "scripts" directory, and right-click inside its window 3. Choose "New" --> "Script" 4. Give it a name "gimp" 5. Click "Create" you now have a script called "gimp" 6. Right-click the "gimp" script --> "Open as text" 7. Leave the top line as it is, but add a new line underneath with this exec gimp "$@" 8. Save it 9. Clicking on your "gimp" script should now open gimp! 10. Drag it out to the desktop, rename it if you want, and assign an icon to it. Hope this helps |
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rjbrewer
 Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 2599 Location: merriam, kansas |
For internet shortcut how to, go here: http://rhinoweb.us/ Under customize. _________________ Dimension 3000, Xp, Puppies Inspiron 700m, Xp, Puppies |
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wildsi
Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 12 Location: Manchester, UK |
Thanks for your help. I found the GIMP desktop file in /usr/share/applications as suggested. The tutorial for the internet shortcuts was useful as well. Cheers, Simon |
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