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Place a script, shortcut, or file on lower panel in Nobara official? (self.linuxquestions)

submitted 1 year ago by slushiedrinker to c/linuxquestions

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Hi! I'm having a hard time finding info about ways to make the lower panel on my desktop do what I want. It seems it only allows me to pin application shortcuts to it. I'd like to add other things. I'm guessing this lower panel is a Gnome tweak, so I suppose I'd like to tweak the tweak. If anyone knows where this mysteriously wonderful lower panel comes from I can probably find docs on it. It has its own settings menu and I've explored those options in the GUI.

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[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could it be this? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/

[–] slushiedrinker 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! Thank you. I am unfamiliar with Gnome and its extensions. I should have had a clue that's what it's called because the settings are called "dash to panel settings." I haven't used Gnome in about 18 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about Nobara, but alternative solution: You can create application menu entries for your scripts etc. and pin the shortcut for that.

I believe, GNOME has nothing built-in to edit the application menu entries, but if you search in GNOME Software for "Menu Editor", that should give you a result.

When creating an entry with that, you'll have to specify the command to run.
For just opening a file, you can use the command open /path/to/your/file.jpg.

[–] slushiedrinker 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah! That makes sense. Thank you. I'll try that out. There's nothing special about Nobara in terms of GUI. It's Gnome, but with all kinds of tweaks and extensions built in that I have no clue about. The kernel, though, is modified as are some key software packages. For the question I'm asking in the OP, you can assume I'm running Fedora 38 with a very heavily tweaked Gnome desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know very little about GNOME in general. 🙃

Thankfully, application menu entries are pretty standardized between desktop environments.
It's just a bunch of .desktop-files in /usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/. If you're hard-core enough, you can do what Menu Editor does with just a run-off-the-mill text editor...

[–] slushiedrinker 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that was what I was thinking about. It's going to be what I have to do. However, I DID discover that the ArcMenu extension is adjacent to how I want things. You can put scripts and other files on it.