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106 Part I . Linux First Steps If the application you want to launch is not on your red hat menu, you can build a launcher yourself as follows: 1. Right-click in an open space on the panel. 2. Select Add to Panel.Custom Application Launcher.Add. The Create Launcher window appears. 3. Provide the following information for the application that you want to add: Name A name to identify the application (this appears in the tool tip when your mouse is over the icon). Generic Name A name to identify the type of application. Comment A comment describing the application. It also appears when you later move your mouse over the launcher. Command The command line that is run when the application is launched. Use the full path name, plus any required options. Type Select Application (to launch an application). (Other selections include Link, to open a Web address in a browser, or FSDevice, to open a file system.) Run in Terminal Click this box if the application is a character-based or ncurses application. (Applications written using the curses library run in a Terminal window but offer screen-oriented mouse and keyboard controls.) 4. Click the Icon box (it might say No Icon). Select one of the icons shown and click OK. Alternatively, you can browse the Linux file system to choose an icon. Icons available to represent your application are contained in the /usr/share/ pixmaps directory. These icons are either in .png or .xpm formats. If there isn t an icon in the directory you want to use, create your own (in one of those two formats) and assign it to the application. 5. Click OK. The application should now appear in the panel. Click it to start the application. Adding a Drawer A drawer is an icon that you can click to display other icons representing menus, applets, and launchers; it behaves just like a panel. Essentially any item you can add to a panel you can add to a drawer. By adding a drawer to your GNOME panel, you can include several applets and launchers that together take up only the space of one icon. Click on the drawer to show the applets and launchers as though they were being pulled out of a drawer icon on the panel. To add a drawer to your panel, right-click the panel and select Add to Panel.Drawer. A drawer appears on the panel. Right-click it, and add applets or launchers to it as you would to a panel. Click the icon again to retract the drawer. Note