Quick Lists

[John Niendorf]

Thank you to all the people who replied to my message.

@Mario "Did you try to remove the launcher icon and re-add it after you have
edited the file
(e.g. ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop)?"   Yes I did.

@James "What about logging out and logging back in?"  I even rebooted the
machine.

@Tom "- use full pathname (dont' attempt ~/blah/blah/executable); spell it
out fully.
- check spelling and punctuation carefully; eg double forward slashes
or a misplaced will fail the list.
- *carefully* check spelling of all added items; a spelling error (or
a small case that needs a cap) will fail the quicklist silently.
- add your additional menu items -->one-at-a-time<-- so you know
what's failing if it fails :-)
- prototype your option switches in a terminal window to make sure
they work before you plug them into the quicklist"

I believe I've checked everything, but obviously there is something I am
missing since I still have problems.
I copied the Chromium code directly from
http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity
(tip
# 14)

I ran the incognito code in a terminal and was able to get it to work using
the full path to Chromium but not the Exec=chromium-browser --incognito
code.

With the Home launcher when I run  nautilus Dropbox my Dropbox folder opens
up.  It still is not seen as an option when right clicking on the home
launcher though, despite running unity --replace and logging out then back
in.

I don't want to waste more of the lists' time with my particular problem,
Tom if it's OK with you I'd like to email you off-list.

It's not so much about being able to use the custom launchers now (I like
keyboard shortcuts more actually)  it's about figuring out why this isn't
working and fixing it :-)

Thank you,

John


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:12 PM, John Niendorf <johnniendorf at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Perhaps this is not the place for this kind of question.  (It always sounds
> so bad when a message begins like that doesn't it?)
>
> Has anyone else had trouble getting quick lists to work?
>
> I read through a couple of tutorials, but still have trouble.
>
> 1. The Chromium tutorial:  I can't get the incognito option to even show
> up.  (
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity
>
> 2. The put useful shortcuts in the Home button tutorial:  I was able to add
> all the shortcuts listed, but when I tried to add my own to Dropbox it
> doesn't show up.
>
> http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/05/top-6-quicklists-for-ubuntu-1104-natty.html
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> John
>
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