NEWBIE Alert for sure. But I was in a forum that suggested all these tweaks and adding a few desktop widgets. I followed those and all went well...however, how the heck do I actually get them to run???
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Well, it would be nice if you actually linked the forum you've read or at least mentioned which "tweaks" we're talking about here. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Mar 12 '16 at 17:09
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Probably a dupe of http://askubuntu.com/questions/436278/how-do-i-list-commands-a-package-provides – muru Mar 12 '16 at 17:19
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Reboot and then search for the in the Dash. – TheWanderer Mar 12 '16 at 19:27
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For example I sudo blah blah Beancounter, a stock app. all went well. But now how do I get it to run? – marcus watt Mar 14 '16 at 16:01
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check if you can run the apps from command line. If so , create a shortcut , and edit it. Add the shell command to the shortcut from the properties menu. Now , you will have desktop shortcuts for your applications.
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First, check your /usr/share/applications folder, there may be a Desktop file there. If not, you will have to find out the command-line command. Once you find it, just type this into a text editor:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=App Name
Exec=command
Icon=optional-icon
Type=Application
Categories=GTK;Gnome;Utility;
I'm sorry, mobile app doesn't like line breaks. Before each assigned variable, there should be a newline.
and save it as appname.desktop
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