I've just upgraded from 1.75.1 to trunk (1.75.3.4569 to be exact) and now I can't seem to pin Oolite to the application bar that runs down the left hand side. I've tried dragging and dropping it: no effect. I've run Oolite and selected "Keep in Launcher": It sticks, but clicking on it does nothing. In desperation I've tried dragging the icon to the desktop: this at least gets an error "There was an error getting information about "/". The specified location is not supported.".
Help?
Thanks in advance,
Eldorn.
[Solved] Sticking Oolite to the aplication bar-Ubuntu 11.04
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Re: Sticking Oolite to the aplication bar - Ubuntu 11.04
Okay, go to your Home folder and show hidden folders. Then, head to .local/share/applications
You should in this folder see something called "oolite-trunk.org.desktop".
Right click on it, select Properties, and go to Permissions. Then tick the Execute: "Allow executing file as program" checkbox.
The file should now appear to change - you should see the Oolite icon and it should be called "Oolite-trunk (oolite.org)".
Drag this file to the Launcher.
Hopefully this should work now; I've just got it working for me (although I'm now removing it from my Launcher as I prefer it to show running programs)!
You should in this folder see something called "oolite-trunk.org.desktop".
Right click on it, select Properties, and go to Permissions. Then tick the Execute: "Allow executing file as program" checkbox.
The file should now appear to change - you should see the Oolite icon and it should be called "Oolite-trunk (oolite.org)".
Drag this file to the Launcher.
Hopefully this should work now; I've just got it working for me (although I'm now removing it from my Launcher as I prefer it to show running programs)!
Re: Sticking Oolite to the aplication bar - Ubuntu 11.04
Got it fixed, thanks!
The file wasn't quite where you said, but having a file name to search for helped an awful lot. It turns out it was in /usr/local/share/applications, owned by root. Thinking about it, I probably should have just tried dropping onto the bar then, but working out how to change permissions from a terminal (to use sudo) was good practice.
Anyhow, all sorted now, Thanks again.
The file wasn't quite where you said, but having a file name to search for helped an awful lot. It turns out it was in /usr/local/share/applications, owned by root. Thinking about it, I probably should have just tried dropping onto the bar then, but working out how to change permissions from a terminal (to use sudo) was good practice.
Anyhow, all sorted now, Thanks again.