Thanks! I actually just made two custom menus for middle and right mosue button, which works good for me. Best, -Matt On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 10:20, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > On February 27, 2004 08:59 pm, Matt Hollingsworth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to set some abbreviated aliases to run programs. My general > > practice is to hit Alt/F2 which brings up the Run command KDesktop > > window. I have been setting my aliases in my .bashrc file. I'm still > > very green at this, so am not sure of what PATH the run command window > > looks at when it launches. Does it have it's own "." file? Or, does it > > just exist before a shell does, so isn't looking at any shell specific > > file for prefs? I'd like to set up some basic aliases to launch > > quicker. So, if anybody knows how to set up the aliases for this, > > please let me know. Could be great. Been using them a lot with .bashrc > > and I think it's the best thing since... well since.... the color > > green. > > > > Hell, I dunno. Any help would be fantastisch. > > > > Besest, > > > > -Matt > > > Matt, > The aliases are a great feature for command line functions, however, if these > are for apps that you run on the desktop, as opposed to something at a > command line, you may find it easiest to add a desktop icon or a panel icon. > You can add all the command line arg etc that you need. > > For the desktop, you can just right-click on the desktop, select "Create New" > -> "Link to Application..." > > The panel icons are right-click on panel, "Add" -> "Special Button" -> > "Non-KDE App" > > Example, I have a second monitor I use for my tv card, it has a single icon on > it that the properties -> Execute show "/usr/bin/xawtv -f" (no quotes) to > launch tv full screen ...never did figure out frame buffer :( > The panel icons seem a little less forgiving, and I usually just delete then > recreate if I need to change it. > > As far as the alt-f2 path, it is likely just the users env at login time, but > that is just a guess. > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
