Dear Rainer, the answer to your Q1 is :- On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:52, Rainer Blaes wrote: > Dear all, > we are running Gnome 2 (downloaded from Sun's Download Center) > under Solaris 9. > > 1. Under $USER_HOME/.dt/sessionslogs/hostname_DISPLAY=:0 > there are messages like: > Unable to open desktop file applications:///netscape.desktop > for panel launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///netscape.desktop': > File not found > From where does this message come? for per user /home/<user>/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/*.desktop while for the system wide it is(pls descend into the subdirectories to see *.desktop) /var/lib/ /etc/X11/ /usr/share/ /usr/local/ while the entries in it is like [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Categories=Application;Game;X-Red-Hat-Extra; X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.2 Name=Tux Racer Description=Race your penguin down an alpine slope Exec=tuxracer Terminal=0 Type=Application Icon=/usr/share/tuxracer/tuxracer.png for a Well Known Linux based game TUXRACER the location of the file is /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/Games/MoreGames/net-tuxracer.desktop hope this will help you to make "netscape.desktop" entry yourself!! and will solve your problem atlest Q1 ;) while i am not using netscape instead Mozilla/Opera for web browsing though as far as i know mozilla is actually netscape mut the command to run it from terminal is ?? for mozilla it is "mozilla" so you need to give that command to Exec= parameter regards, bimal > > Rainer Blaes EADS ST, Bremen (Germany) > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list