I feel a little silly asking this question.
I have been a linux user for many years comming off Unix from the old days when PDP11's were common, and have been a Perl coder for much of those years.
A friend of mine one day asked why I allways fire up my Perl apps. from a terminal, "just add a shortcut to the desktop!" he added.
This seemed a logical thing to do. I only use the terminal out of habit.
So I decided to follow his advice, but do you think I could do it?
I have tried everything I know, but can not create a working shortcut on my X-Gnome desktop to my Perl apps.
I have done a search in your wonderful database but not a thing.
Is there some trick to this seemingly simple task or is it not possible.

2006-06-14 Retitled by GrandFather, as per Monastery guidelines

In reply to (OT) Creating Shortcut to Perl Applications in Gnome by ka1958

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