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From: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: to run a package that isn't shown in the application menu
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:43:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d15abaef-29c4-630a-6b65-7ad0a791e807@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFDA1313-6A2A-4966-BF04-241EE441DE36@lepiller.eu>

These packages are lacking a launcher icon:

mc (midnight commander) ( I can start it in the command-line.)
network-manager-applet (for MATE Desktop)
mate-applets
texlive-todonotes



Am 10.03.22 um 08:35 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> In general, you can run the app from the command-line. Don't point 
> directly to the store, because the path might change after an update.
> 
> However this is only a workaround. The proper solution is to fix the 
> packaging. Which packages are lacking a launcher icon?
> 
> On March 9, 2022 7:17:10 PM GMT+01:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I installed some packages, but they don't appear in the application menu
>     (no icon).
> 
>     Is there an other way (manual way) to run them?
> 
>     I tried to use a starter and point to a file in
>     /gun/store/application/bin/application
>     but it says "file could not be found".
> 
>     Gottfried
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-10 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-09 18:17 to run a package that isn't shown in the application menu Gottfried
2022-03-10  7:35 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-10 18:43   ` Gottfried [this message]
     [not found] ` <133f9d57-4016-4399-d178-754aa18d5817@korwin-zmijowski.fr>
2022-03-10 17:57   ` Gottfried

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