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Anyone know a quick (say, 15 minutes or less) way to kluge up a custom launcher application for a Gnome panel? Something with a small edit box is all that's needed. There's a little capplet called "webcontrol" which ships with RHL6.1 which is (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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(...) Er, I should be more specific about what I'd like to do... I just want a little applet that sits there and runs in a panel, and has a simple little 15-character edit box, and when I type stuff into the edit box and press Enter, I want it to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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(...) Sorry I can't answer the rest of your question, but I can tell you how to find the source code of something under redhat. First, find the full name of the applet binary: thneed:~$ locate webcontrol /etc/CORBA/servers/w...let.gnorba (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 05:54:45 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) hermitage$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/webcontrol_applet gnome-core-1.0.39-10 now all you need to do it search through the gnome core (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 06:15:21 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) hmmm... while I don't use the gnome stuff myself (too fancy, I like FVWM too much), why not write the whole thing in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:39:03 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) [snip excellent instructions] thanks a lot Matt! I never really delved into rpm, I usually compile and install my own (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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(...) I really like RPM (and package managers in general). It really gives you a lot of power, and helps keep your system manageable. I'd recommend installing anything you build yourself into /usr/local -- that way, you keep the RPM database there (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:43:29 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote (...) the only problem with that, is the under the current setup, we have /usr/local an NFS exported directory (which make a lot of sense, as long as you're not too worried (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah. Yeah, some of the departments I support do a similar thing. (Largely, we use AFS, but we've got some holdouts....) I've tried to move most of them to making the exported directory be /usr/local/somethingorother instead of just /usr/local. (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | NFS /usr/local (was Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?)
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:13:44 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) perhaps I should try and rethink our NFS structure. It hasn't been much of a problem though, since there are very few (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: NFS /usr/local (was Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?)
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(...) well, the longer you go between doing them, the more of an issue it is. :) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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