Launchers

Launchers are buttons which reside in your Panel and start an application or execute a command when clicked. A launcher can use any icon and has a customized tooltip to display a message when the cursor is passed over the launcher.

You can change a launcher's properties, such as the icon it uses and its name, by right-clicking on the launcher and selecting Properties... from the pop-up menu. This brings up the Launcher properties dialog, shown in Figure 7. A similar dialog is used when you create a new launcher (see the section called Adding objects to the panel). Note that internally GNOME makes no distinction between menu items and launchers: these are just different representations of the same thing. You can place any menu item on a Panel, and it will appear as a launcher. Therefore, all the information below applies equally to launchers and menu items.

Figure 7. Create Launcher/Launcher Properties Dialog

The Laucher Properties dialog has two tabs: Basic and Advanced. In the Basic tab, you can set: