mikewalsh wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:24 pmO-kay.
Well, following on from the previous post, the MenuAdd script will work well enough to get me a working launcher for Iron-portable on the desktop.
Through Thunar, navigate through the file-system to where your portable browser/application is located. If on an external partition or USB drive, easiest is to click on the desktop icon for that partition or drive.
Enter the portable app so you've got MenuAdd showing. Right-click->Open terminal here. Enter
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./MenuAdd
....then hit enter. It complains about not finding 'fixmenus' & 'restartwm', of course, but it does what we want.....and that is to place a sym-link from the 'LAUNCH' script into /usr/bin, the .desktop entry into /usr/share/applications, and an icon into /usr/share/pixmaps. (You can't run it by simply clicking on it, the way we do in Puppy. If you do this, Thunar thinks you want to look at it, and opens it up in Geany instead. I vaguely recall there's a way to make Thunar execute scripts rather than display them, but it's years since I've used XFCE & Thunar.)
When it's run through, navigate to /usr/share/applications, and locate the iron-portable.desktop file. Right-click->Send to->Desktop (create link).
This'll put a launcher onto the desktop.
Mike.
Hello Mike,
I think this might be one of the few things I've tried here that actually worked. I'm posting from portable Iron in klv alpha3 now. Will certainly make posting the output from a terminal etc easier. Thanks for this.
Regards,
Ken.