First thanks for the answers to my previous questions. Everything worked perfectly. 1) In gnome-shell, where is the "favorites" information placed? I can stick thing in favorites by selecting that when right clicking on the icon, but I cannot seem to see where that information gets stored under my home directory. There does not seem to be a way to set the properties of a favorite, and I need to set up some command line options. I was looking for an indirect way of doing this. Gnome2 had a desktop directory in which I could put *.desktop files, but gnome shell seems to ignore them, and trying to execute them just brings gedit up on them. I can create an executable script that exec's the application with the command line switches I want, which I can then move to favorites, but the resulting icont seem to just launch the original application without options. -- Barry Fishman -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop